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Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer

Gecko Robotics · Pittsburgh · On-site

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About Gecko Robotics

Gecko transforms how organizations build, operate, and maintain their most critical infrastructure by fusing AI and robotics. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Build software that works in the field. Networks drop, sensors disconnect, and there is no one to escalate to at 6am on a customer site. You will design for that. Own the seams between systems. Our field software coordinates multiple services and talks to robots we build and robots we do not. Much of the work is making those boundaries reliable.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years building production software
  • Strong Python
  • Comfortable in a modern JavaScript front-end framework. We use Svelte for field software and React elsewhere, we care that you are strong in one, not which one
  • Experience with real-time or streaming data, meaning systems where information arrives continuously and timing matters
  • Experience integrating with hardware, robots, or third-party systems you do not control
More about this role

Gecko Robotics is helping the world’s most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure. Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure.

Our robots climb boiler walls, storage tanks, and ship hulls to collect ultrasonic data that tells customers how much life their infrastructure has left. This role builds the software our operators use to run those robots and capture that data in the field.

You will work on the system operators actually touch on site: driving the robot, watching data come in live, and knowing whether the run is good before anyone leaves. It runs on hardware at the job site, often in difficult conditions, and it has to work the first time.

Right now the team is extending that software to support a new robot, an...

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