Principal Senior Robotics AI Architect

What you'll do

• Define architecture for multi-layer AI control loops including perception, world modeling, and motion planning.
• Establish timing models and system constraints to ensure deterministic execution and low-latency performance.
• Optimize compute utilization and data movement across heterogeneous CPU, GPU, and accelerator systems.
• Act as the primary architectural lead for lighthouse customers to guide system design and performance trade-offs.
• Translate real-world customer constraints into platform requirements and technical roadmap improvements.
• Define reference architectures for complex robotic systems like humanoids and high-degree-of-freedom manipulators.
• Influence the development of Physical AI SDKs, runtime frameworks, and robotics middleware integrations.
• Create scalable architectural patterns, including reusable operator graphs and standardized deployment topologies.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience in robotics and autonomous systems AI architecture, including RL work and sim-to-real transitions.
• Proven technical leadership experience influencing both internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of AI inference runtimes, deployment tradeoffs, and CPU/GPU/NPU scheduling.
• Expertise in system-level performance, latency, and real-time requirements for mixed-criticality systems.
• Proficiency with software frameworks such as ROS2, OpenCV, gstreamer, and vLLM.
• Ability to translate complex customer deployments into platform features and roadmap requirements.
• Familiarity with AMD GPU and NPU AI software stacks and tools is preferred.