Head of Software Architecture, Embodied AI Platform

Role details

ABOUT THE ROLE Lead the end-to-end architecture for a robotics software platform that connects and operates physical devices across a fleet. This hands-on leadership role sets technical direction across cloud, edge, frontend, and AI systems while helping grow the software platform team. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and own platform architecture spanning device connectivity, fleet management, AI capabilities, data pipelines, and model training workflows. - Set technical direction across frontend, backend, robot-side software, and infrastructure, and make architectural decisions as the team scales. - Write and review production code, especially while establishing foundational abstractions. - Design safe ways to integrate AI agents, including chatbots, agentic behaviors, and learning from fleet data, with appropriate safeguards for physical robots. - Grow and lead the software platform team, establish engineering standards, and develop architecture review processes. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 8 years of experience in platform architecture, with broad system design ownership across distributed backends and frontend systems. - Staff-, principal-, or equivalent-level experience architecting platforms for hardware, IoT, connected devices, or robotics at scale. - Strong distributed systems and system design skills, including the ability to reason about end-to-end edge, cloud, and frontend architecture. - Recent hands-on coding experience and a record of owning architecture across multiple teams. - Experience with connected-device systems, real-time communication, APIs, data pipelines, fleet management, and edge-cloud architecture. - A computer science or related technical degree, familiarity with AI agents and tool use, and comfort adopting AI-assisted development practices. - Startup or early-stage leadership experience is beneficial. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $250,000 to $400,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION On-site in Santa Clara, California, United States.