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title: 'Director of Machine Learning at Gather AI'
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# Director of Machine Learning at Gather AI

- **Company:** Gather AI
- **Location:** Pittsburgh, PA / Open To, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-03-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gatherai/jobs/5066902007

## Job description

## About Us

Are you ready to build the future of supply chain? At Gather AI, we’re not just creating software; we’re pioneering a new era of warehouse intelligence. We’ve developed a groundbreaking, vision-powered platform that uses autonomous drones and existing equipment to capture real-time data, completely digitizing workflows that have historically been manual and error-prone. This means facilities operate smarter, safer, and more efficiently, ultimately redefining “on-time, in full” delivery.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to contribute to truly transformative technology and make a significant impact in a vital industry, Gather AI is the place for you. We’re leading the charge in the rapidly evolving robotics industry, and we invite you to join us in reshaping the global supply chain, one intelligent warehouse at a time.

## About the Team

You’ll lead the Machine Learning and FPT teams, working closely with the Director of Cloud Engineering and Director of Autonomy. Cross-departmentally, you’ll collaborate with Product and Business leadership to translate ML capabilities into product value. This is a high-visibility role with a direct line to executive leadership and significant influence over product direction.

## About the Role

We are looking for a Director of Machine Learning to define our ML strategy, lead our computer vision organization, and drive the next phase of ML maturity at Gather AI. You will assess existing ML and CV capabilities, identify gaps and opportunities, and establish a clear technical vision for how machine learning will power our warehouse intelligence platform over the next 12–18 months.

The ideal candidate brings deep computer vision expertise, a track record of shipping production ML systems, and the leadership experience to build and scale a world-class ML team.

## What You’ll Do

- Define and own the ML strategy and technical roadmap for Gather AI, aligned with product and business objectives
- Lead and grow the Machine Learning and FPT teams, establishing a culture of rigor, experimentation, and production-quality delivery
- Drive improvements to core computer vision models (object detection, segmentation, OCR) used across our drone and MHE Vision products
- Build out MLOps infrastructure — model training pipelines, deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD for ML workloads
- Collaborate with the Director of Cloud Engineering and Director of Autonomy to ensure ML systems integrate seamlessly into the broader platform
- Partner with Product and Operations to translate customer needs into ML-driven product capabilities

## What You’ll Need

- 10+ years building and scaling production ML or computer vision systems
- 5+ years managing and growing ML engineering teams
- Deep expertise in computer vision: object detection, image segmentation, OCR, and CNN architectures
- Strong Python and PyTorch (or TensorFlow) proficiency, plus a track record of shipping ML models to production at scale
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field (strong industry track record considered in lieu of advanced degree)

## Nice to Have

- Experience with drone, robotics, or autonomous systems perception
- Edge ML deployment experience (ONNX, TensorRT, mobile/embedded inference)
- Familiarity with warehouse, logistics, or supply chain domain
- Experience with AWS or GCP ML services (SageMaker, Vertex AI)

## About Gather AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gather AI builds the Physical AI platform for logistics, using AI-powered vision on drones and material handling equipment to digitize warehouse operations in real time.
- **Entity Type**: Private – Series B ($74M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Pittsburgh, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Sankalp Arora (CEO), Geetesh Dubey (Chief Systems Officer), Daniel Maturana (Chief ML Scientist)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Logistics and warehouse management (Physical AI)
- Target customers: B2B, enterprise-scale logistics, manufacturing, retail, aerospace, automotive, and government – customers include GEODIS, NFI Industries, Barrett Distribution Centers, Axon, and dnata
- Mission: To give every facility in a network the same continuous picture of the floor, the intelligence to understand it, and the workflows to act on it – bringing the same intelligence to the physical world that exists in the digital one.

## Products & Services
- **Gather AI Prana Platform**: An end-to-end Physical AI platform with three layers:
  - **SEE**: AI-powered vision on forklift-mounted cameras (for moving items) and drones (for static inventory) that captures ten-plus structured data points per frame, achieving 99.9%+ inventory accuracy.
  - **THINK**: AI reasoning that investigates root cause across inventory, labor, and fulfillment, surfacing ranked, reasoned priorities before each shift.
  - **ACT**: Workflows that route decisions to the right person or system with pre-drafted tasks, closing the loop from capture to action.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: 2.5x year-over-year bookings growth (250% growth); total funding of $74M (including a $40M Series B raised in 2026); average time to ROI is 6 months.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by Tribeca Venture (noted on LinkedIn); deployed with GEODIS, NFI Industries, Barrett Distribution Centers, Axon, dnata, and the U.S. Department of Classified Antiquities.
- **Growth Signals**: Doubled operational footprint in 2026; named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2026; employee headcount grew ~68% year over year to 80+ employees; expanded into government sector; active job postings increased 333% YoY.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Closed-loop Physical AI**: Combines vision (SEE), reasoning (THINK), and action (ACT) in one platform – a unique integration that turns real-time visual data into prioritized tasks and automated workflows.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founded by Carnegie Mellon robotics PhDs; CTO Andrew Hoffman was a founding engineer at Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics); team has decades of warehouse automation experience.
- **Network-wide consistency**: The platform enforces the same standard across every facility, enabling fixes from one building to become playbooks for the whole network.
- **99.9%+ accuracy** down to the case level, maintained continuously, not just during audits.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale platform across multi-facility enterprise networks and new verticals (government, aerospace, automotive).
- Continue investing in AI/ML autonomy and computer vision to expand the “THINK” layer’s root-cause analysis and predictive capabilities.
- Enhance network-wide outcomes by replicating operational playbooks across customer sites.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Radical transparency, candor, accountability, speed, and a people-first approach. Decisions are made openly; everyone has a voice in shaping the company’s future.
- **Work model**: Fully remote or remote-flexible options available.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary and equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, 401K, unlimited PTO, monthly wellness benefit, continuing education/tuition support, voluntary life insurance.
- **Engineering culture**: Opportunities to work on cutting-edge AI, ML, autonomy, computer vision, and robotics alongside former Amazon Robotics and CMU experts. Real customer impact at scale.

## Sources
1. [gather.ai](https://gather.ai)  
2. [gather.ai/company](https://gather.ai/company)  
3. [gather.ai/careers](https://gather.ai/careers)  
4. [gather.ai/about](https://www.gather.ai/about)  
5. [linkedin.com/company/gather-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gather-ai)

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