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About the Role
Lead end-to-end software architecture for a platform that connects and operates fleets of general-purpose robots. This hands-on leadership role sets technical direction across cloud, edge, frontend, and AI capabilities while helping grow the engineering team.
What You'll Do
Design and own the architecture for robot connectivity, fleet management, AI features, data pipelines, and model-training workflows.
Set technical direction across frontend, backend, robot-side software, and infrastructure, making key decisions as the platform scales.
Write and review production code, especially while establishing foundational architecture and abstractions.
Integrate AI agents and learning capabilities safely, with appropriate guardrails for physical robots.
Grow and lead the platform engineering team, setting engineering standards and architecture review practices.
What We're Looking For
At least 8 years of experience in full-stack platform architecture, with ownership of system design across distributed backends and frontend.
Staff- or Principal-level experience architecting SaaS platforms that manage connected devices or physical hardware at scale.
Strong distributed systems and edge-to-cloud architecture skills, including experience with IoT, fleet management, real-time communications, WebSockets, gRPC, pub/sub, APIs, data pipelines, and OTA updates.
Demonstrated hands-on coding ability and recent production code contributions, along with experience owning architecture across multiple teams.
A degree in computer science or a related technical field, and familiarity with AI agents, tool use, or multi-step planning.
Comfort adopting AI tools in day-to-day engineering work; startup or early-stage leadership experience is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $250,000 to $400,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in Santa Clara, California, United States. Candidates should be based in the area or willing to relocate.
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