Company details

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Manufacturing & Industrials

WEBSITE

http://www.geckorobotics.com/

About the company

Gecko Robotics builds robots, sensors, and software used to inspect and monitor critical infrastructure, with an AI layer that turns inspection data into decision-ready outputs. The company positions its platform as a way for industrial and government operators to understand asset health, reduce downtime, and improve safety. Public hiring materials point to a mix of field-heavy work and product engineering, including customer-facing “forward deployed” engineering roles alongside core software teams. The company also runs structured early-career pathways in software engineering, including internships and a new-graduate rotation.

Locations and presence

Gecko Robotics is headquartered in Pittsburgh and recruits across multiple US hubs including Boston and New York City. Public office listings also include Houston, Washington, D.C., and Abu Dhabi.

Palpable Score

67.0

/ 100

Gecko Robotics offers unusually concrete early-career entry points for a robotics company, including a paid new-grad rotational program with published salary and a defined mentorship and development structure. The main cap is consistency: early-career experience signals vary by team in public feedback, and there is limited public reporting on promotion and retention outcomes for junior cohorts.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

14.0

/ 20

The company advertises a Software Engineer new-graduate rotational program with a defined cohort size, start window, and rotations across multiple engineering orgs.
Gecko Robotics has posted paid software engineering internships with explicit time commitments, in-person location expectations, and team placement language rather than vague “help where needed” scope.
The company’s broader open-role mix still skews toward experienced hires, so early-career access looks concentrated in engineering pathways rather than spread across many functions.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.0

/ 20

The company publishes a clear interview outline for the new-grad rotational role, including the number of rounds and typical timeline, which reduces candidate guesswork.
Gecko Robotics uses structured job descriptions that spell out location type (on-site) and travel expectations, which helps early-career applicants avoid surprise constraints.
The company has mixed public interview feedback, so while structure exists on paper, consistency in candidate experience is not fully verifiable from public data.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

14.0

/ 20

The company’s new-grad rotational program includes one-on-one mentorship, quarterly development check-ins, and a professional development stipend, which are tangible support mechanisms.
Gecko Robotics describes interns being embedded into teams and participating in the full product lifecycle from planning through deployment and iteration with users.
The company frames many roles as high-ownership in a fast-paced environment, which can be great for learning, but the public evidence does not confirm a consistent onboarding and manager coaching standard across all early-career teams.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

15.0

/ 20

The company publishes a starting base salary range for the new-grad rotational role and notes equity as part of the package, which is rare clarity for early-career engineering.
Gecko Robotics lists core benefits in job materials, including equity, 401(k) matching, parental leave, and medical coverage, which supports stability for new starters.
The company does not consistently publish salary ranges across all roles and locations in the public footprint, which limits predictability outside the early-career programs.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.0

/ 20

The company has at least one publicly described internship-to-full-time pathway shared on LinkedIn, but this is anecdotal rather than cohort-level outcome reporting.
Gecko Robotics builds an explicit progression mechanism into the rotational program via two rotations, a team-matching process, and a scheduled six-month check-in after long-term placement, which is a credible internal pathway design.
The company has limited public metrics on early-career retention or promotion rates, and public sentiment on Glassdoor is mixed at the company level, which keeps this pillar mid-range.