Staff Autonomy Engineer (Drone)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the autonomy software stack for Gather products, including perception, localization, and inventory scanning pipelines running on vehicle-mounted embedded compute
• Contribute to the architecture of the product autonomy stack as the product scales to more vehicle types, facility layouts, and customer configurations
• Document existing systems
• Plan future revisions
• Contribute and lead to design improvements and testing
• Solve problems across the autonomy stack
• Design and implement algorithms that reliably detect, identify, and record inventory locations as forklifts and drones move through warehouse aisles under variable lighting, occlusion, and motion
• Improve scan accuracy and coverage through algorithmic improvements, better sensor integration, and tighter coordination with the ML perception models

Job requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years building autonomy, robotics, or perception systems that run on physical hardware in production
• Strong C++ and Python, with experience writing software that runs on embedded or resource-constrained compute platforms
• Hands-on experience with computer vision pipelines including camera-based detection, localization, or tracking in real-world environments
• Experience building and debugging software on deployed systems, including log-based diagnosis and field iteration
• Comfort operating at Staff level: setting technical direction, making consequential architecture decisions, and taking end-to-end ownership of a system