About Gideon
At Gideon, we’re crafting the future of logistics, manufacturing & other industrial environments with cutting-edge AI and 3D vision-based autonomous robots. Our team of 130+ exceptional individuals is committed to automating complex operations, allowing people to shine in what they do best.
We are an ambitious group of tech enthusiasts with different backgrounds, skills, and experiences, very excited and passionate about what we do! And above all, we cherish team spirit, constant learning and kindness.
About the role
As Gideon scales, our robots, software and teams are becoming more interconnected, and someone needs to keep the whole system coherent. As our System Architect, you’ll own the high-level architecture across hardware and software, drive key architectural decisions, and help teams choose solutions that will hold up as our fleet, product and organization grow.
You’ll set the direction, and implementation stays with the individual teams. What we need is strong technical judgment, a clear point of view, and the openness to bring different perspectives together into well-informed decisions.
Responsibilities we’ll trust you with:
- Own and visualize the architecture. Maintain a single, current, shared high-level view of the end-to-end system across hardware and software.
- Analyze and propose options. Compare realistic architectural approaches and their trade-offs, build quick prototypes (with agentic AI where it helps), and put forward clear recommendations.
- Drive decisions to a conclusion. Bring proposals to our Tech Forum, where cross-team technical decisions are made, and see them through to clear, documented outcomes (architecture decision records).
- Shape new features before the build starts. Recommend which frameworks, solutions and patterns to use, and where each feature should live in the system.
- Simplify and harden the system. Remove interfaces that don’t add value, cut accidental complexity, and design for graceful degradation, fault recovery and reliable real-time behavior.
- Keep the stack platform-agnostic. Make sure new vehicles and partner platforms can plug in without forking the stack.
- Define interfaces and contracts. Set clear interfaces between our teams and with customer systems and standards, such as vehicle interoperability, WMS, conveyors, dock doors and other infrastructure.
- Look ahead. Follow the robotics, middleware and AI-tooling landscape, and flag technical risk and debt early.
Your area of expertise:
- Experience architecting complex systems that combine hardware and software, ideally including a significant migration you led end to end.
- A solid understanding of how the layers of a robotic system fit together, from mechanical, electrical, embedded and control to autonomy, perception, navigation and fleet software, with hands-on depth in at least some of them.
- A strong analytical habit: you can lay out several viable approaches, compare them honestly, and recommend one.
- A bias for simplicity, and comfort using agentic AI to prototype options while staying clear-eyed about its limits.
- Systems-engineering rigor and fluency with architecture modeling (e.g. C4, UML/SysML or diagrams-as-code).
- Strong facilitation and written communication. You lead through influence rather than authority, actively seek out other perspectives, and bring them together into the best possible decision.
Bonus points:
- Robotics / AMR domain experience, ROS, cloud & fleet software, or a functional-safety background.
- Experience introducing lightweight architecture governance in a fast-scaling organization.
Steps in the selection process:
Introduction
Tell us about your experiences and interests, and we will tell you more about the position, about our team and Gideon as a whole. We cherish the individual approach to every candidate and we are always curious to hear how we fit into your plans!
Technical Assessment
This stage will show you how the actual job will look like and how you fit in. You will get an insight into technical details by completing the technical task and discussion with one of our senior experts.
Final interview
The final step is a more in-depth conversation where you will get a full picture of how your work in Gideon would look like and what kind of culture we cherish.
Offer!
If all goes well, this is when we send you the offer with the information and details about compensation, vacation policy, benefits plan and all the other working details.
