Head of Software Architecture, Embodied AI Platform

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.