Robotics & Autonomy Systems Architect Silicon Architecture Santa Clara, CA Santa Clara, CA Austin, Texas Boston, MA Full-time 200000 - 500000

Responsibilities

● Analyze modern robotics and drone system architectures, including sensing, perception, planning, control, and onboard compute.

● Understand how autonomy stacks process sensor data and translate those requirements into system-level compute needs.

● Map robotics and autonomy workloads onto compute platforms, identifying performance, latency, and power constraints.

● Work with hardware architects to define compute architectures optimized for robotics and embodied AI workloads.

● Evaluate real-world deployment requirements for robotics systems, including reliability, real-time performance, safety, and energy efficiency.

● Collaborate with AI model architects and silicon designers to align robotics workloads with next-generation hardware capabilities.

● Develop system-level workload models representing robotics and drone use cases.

● Help guide product direction by identifying emerging requirements across robotics, AMRs, drones, and other embodied AI systems.

Required Qualifications

● Strong understanding of robotics or drone system architectures.

● Experience working with autonomy stacks including perception, sensor fusion, planning, and control.

● Experience with robotics frameworks such as ROS, Isaac, or similar autonomy platforms.

● Strong systems engineering mindset and ability to reason about end-to-end system performance.

● Experience deploying or architecting compute platforms for robotics or autonomous systems.

● Ability to work across hardware, software, and system architecture teams.

● Experience designing compute architectures for robotics or edge AI systems.

● Familiarity with sensor modalities such as cameras, lidar, radar, and IMUs.

● Experience with real-time systems and robotics control loops.

● Experience with drones, autonomous vehicles, or industrial robotics.

● Understanding of how AI models integrate into robotics pipelines.