Principal Platform Architect – Physical AI Data & Runtime Platform, Kitchener, ON

Siemens Mobility; Kitchener; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Flexible work hours

Telecommuting

Mentorship programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

Siemens Canada is seeking a Principal Platform Architect to define the architecture of a Canada‑based platform supporting AI, robotics, industrial data, and runtime‑oriented Physical AI applications. You will shape APIs, data contracts, event‑driven services, ingestion pipelines, and security architecture to scale from pilots to broad deployment.

Collaborating with AI/ML, robotics, backend, frontend, and DevOps teams, you will mentor engineers and contribute to architecture reviews, roadmaps,

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• 10+ years in software architecture or platform engineering.
• Cloud‑native architectures, APIs, event‑driven design, and scalable data platforms.
• Strong ability to align architecture with cross‑functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define end‑to‑end platform architecture across ingestion, APIs, and deployment foundations.
• Establish modular architectural principles for robotics data use cases and Physical AI workflows.
• Design data contracts, service boundaries, and interface standards for robot, vision, edge, and research systems.
• Shape onboarding, dataset versioning, governance, and evaluation support.
• Define patterns for workflow orchestration, asynchronous processing, and observability.
• Collaborate with robotics integration engineers on connector strategies for edge sources.
• Guide decisions on cloud‑native services, storage, security, deployment models, and production hardening.
• Ensure evolution into future domains like validation harnesses and task workflow execution.
• Mentor engineers across backend, integration, and platform domains; raise technical quality.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, roadmaps, and build‑vs‑partner decisions.

Skills

Software architecture

Platform engineering

Backend systems

Distributed applications

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Distributed Systems / Robotics

Job description

Principal Platform Architect – Physical AI Data & Runtime Platform, Kitchener, ON

508971

19-Ago-2026

Research & Development

Change the future with us.

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who solve ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re‑inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

About the role:

Are you a senior software architect passionate about designing scalable platforms for AI, robotics, industrial data, and execution‑oriented applications?

Do you enjoy turning technical ambiguity into robust architectures, clear interfaces, and production‑grade systems?

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Platform Architect to define the architecture of our Canada‑based platform capability that supports robotics data ingestion, validation, transformation, governance, workflow execution, and future runtime‑oriented Physical AI applications.

In this role, you will be responsible for the platform backbone: APIs, data contracts, event‑driven services, ingestion pipelines, workflow and orchestration patterns, security architecture, observability, and system integration concepts. You will work closely with team leadership, AI/ML and robotics specialists, backend engineers, frontend engineers, and DevOps engineers to shape a platform that can scale from early pilots to broader industrial deployment!

What will you do?

• Define the end-to-end platform architecture across data ingestion, metadata management, APIs, workflow execution, connectors, and deployment foundations.
• Establish architectural principles for a modular platform that can support robotics data use cases today and broader Physical AI workflows over time.
• Design data contracts, service boundaries, integration patterns, and interface standards for robot, vision, edge, and research‑facing systems.
• Shape the platform architecture for customer data onboarding, dataset versioning, validation, governance, and evaluation support.
• Define scalable patterns for workflow orchestration, asynchronous processing, event‑driven services, and system observability.
• Collaborate with robotics integration engineers to define connector strategies for robot controllers, sensors, cameras, and other edge sources.
• Guide decisions around cloud‑native services, storage layers, API security, deployment models, and production hardening.
• Ensure that the platform can evolve cleanly into future domain areas such as Level 3 skill enablement, validation harnesses, and task workflow execution.
• Mentor engineers across backend, integration, and platform domains and help raise overall technical quality.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, technical roadmaps, and build‑vs‑partner decisions where appropriate.

What you will bring:

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Robotics, or a related field.
• Proven experience, typically 10+ years, in software architecture, platform engineering, backend systems, or large‑scale distributed applications.
• Deep knowledge of cloud‑native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, event‑driven design, security‑by‑design, and scalable data platforms.
• Strong experience defining architecture for complex, cross‑functional products with multiple stakeholders and evolving requirements.
• Familiarity with industrial data systems, AI/ML platform patterns, or robotics‑related software systems.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain architecture decisions to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Hands‑on mindset with the ability to move between strategic architecture and implementation guidance.

What sets you apart:

• Experience with robotics software systems, runtime platforms, workflow engines, ROS/ROS2, or edge integration.
• Experience in AI/ML data platforms, model evaluation platforms, or MLOps tooling.
• Exposure to industrial protocols, control‑adjacent software environments, or real‑time integration constraints.
• Experience helping new engineering teams establish architecture from the ground up.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Build the founding team and platform capability for a strategic Physical AI initiative in Canada.
• Innovation: Work at the intersection of robotics, AI, industrial software, workflow orchestration, and platform engineering.
• Leadership: Shape the direction, culture, and operating model of a new strategic engineering organization.
• Collaboration: Partner with leading global research, product, and engineering teams.
• Growth: Help define how Physical AI platform capabilities scale from data foundations to runtime‑enabled industrial applications.

Salary: Salary iscommensuratewith experience, and base salary ranges between $140,000 - $185,000 CAD excluding bonus and benefits. In addition to base salary, this role includes eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus ranging from 10 % to 15% of base salary, based on Company performance metrics.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight‑time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2025.

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Canada is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast-to-coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca

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