Lead Platform Architect for Physical AI & Edge Robotics

Altis Technology; Kitchener; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 10% of base salary

Job summary

Altis Technology in Kitchener, ON is seeking a Principal Platform Architect to lead the design of a new Physical AI platform and robotics engineering capability. You will work with a cross-functional team of about 14 engineers, applying a production mindset to move from pilots to scalable industrial applications.

You will shape architecture, roadmap, and engineering practices while collaborating with global research, product, and engineering groups to deliver robust cloud-native solutions and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software architecture, platform engineering, backend systems or large-scale distributed applications.
• Strong end-to-end platform architecture experience, including cloud-native systems, APIs, event-driven design, security and scalable data platforms.
• Strong cloud expertise, preferably AWS, plus scripting experience such as Python.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms, MLOps, model evaluation, industrial systems or production AI applications.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end platform architecture spanning data ingestion, APIs, metadata, workflow execution, connectors and deployment foundations.
• Design scalable data contracts, service boundaries, event-driven services and integration patterns for robot, vision and edge systems.
• Architect platforms capable of managing terabyte-scale physical data, including validation, governance and dataset versioning.
• Create technical roadmaps and guide cloud, storage, security, observability and production-hardening decisions.
• Design distributed and edge-ready solutions that account for geographically dispersed and resource-constrained environments.
• Mentor engineers and guide build-versus-partner decisions to keep delivery focused and efficient.

Skills

Platform architecture

Cloud-native systems

AWS

Python scripting

AI/ML platforms

Edge / distributed systems

Robotics (ROS/ROS2)

Mentorship / leadership

DevOps / production delivery

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Job description

Altis Technology in Kitchener, ON is seeking a Principal Platform Architect to lead the design of a new Physical AI platform and robotics engineering capability. You will work with a cross-functional team of about 14 engineers, applying a production mindset to move from pilots to scalable industrial applications.

You will shape architecture, roadmap, and engineering practices while collaborating with global research, product, and engineering groups to deliver robust cloud-native solutions and