System Architect
Zagreb,
Croatia
About us
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.
If you're ready to join us and be part of this journey, read on!
Our team, based in Croatia and USA, consists of 130+ super-talented people, including top-notch experts in the field of hardware and software engineering, and is devoted to developing robots with a mission of making people's work easier.
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. There is much more to learn, so we hope this piqued your curiosity!
About the role
The System Architect owns the overall architecture of our hardware and software systems, ensuring it remains aligned, scalable, and clearly understood across teams. This role drives key architectural decisions, evaluates technical trade-offs, and recommends solutions that support Gideon’s long-term growth.
The focus is on high-level architectural direction rather than implementation details, which remain with individual teams.
As Gideon continues to scale, we need someone with strong technical judgment, a clear point of view, and a scalability mindset — someone who values feedback, considers different perspectives, and drives well-informed decisions across teams.
Responsibilities we’ll trust you with:
Own & visualize the architecture — keep a single, current, shared high-level view of the end-to-end system across hardware and software.
Analyze, prototype and propose — compare realistic architectural approaches and their trade-offs, build quick prototypes with agentic AI where it helps, and put forward clear options.
Align on the Tech Forum — bring your proposals to the Tech Forum and drive them to clear, documented conclusions (architecture decision records).
Architect new features — recommend which frameworks, solutions and patterns to use, and where a feature should live in the system, before the build starts.
Simplify and harden the system — remove interfaces that don't bring value, cut accidental complexity, and design for graceful degradation, fault recovery and sound real-time behaviour.
Keep the stack platform-agnostic — so new vehicles and partner platforms plug in without forking the stack.
Systems engineering & documentation — define the interfaces and contracts between teams and with customer systems and standards (vehicle interoperability, WMS, conveyors, dock doors, other infrastructure).
Look ahead — stay current with the robotics, middleware and AI-tooling landscape and flag technical risk and debt early.
Your area of expertise:
Substantial experience architecting complex systems that span both hardware and software, including at least one significant migration led end to end.
Genuine breadth across the layers — mechanical, electrical, embedded and control, as well as autonomy, perception, navigation and fleet software.
A strong analytical habit: able to lay out several viable approaches, compare them honestly, and recommend one.
A bias for simplicity and comfort using agentic AI to prototype options, while clear-eyed about its limits.
Systems-engineering rigor and fluency with architecture modelling (e.g. C4, UML/SysML, or diagrams-as-code).
Strong facilitation and written communication; able to lead through influence rather than authority.
Highly receptive to feedback: you actively take on other people’s perspectives, look at the full picture and bring it together into the best possible decision.
A scaling lens alongside the technical one: you judge every architectural choice by how it will hold up as our fleet, product and teams grow.
Bonus points:
Robotics / AMR domain experience, ROS, cloud & fleet software, or 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.
If we already managed to spark your interest, you can apply even now
But the best things are yet to come if you continue to read on :)
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