Platform Software Lead for Physical AI & Robotics

Velaura; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Medical/dental/vision

Paid time off

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Velaura, Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Platform Software Lead to define the software foundation for its Physical AI platform, spanning silicon architecture, system software, AI workloads, robotics middleware, and developer experience.

You will work with architects, performance modelers, and application developers to design an architecture that enables efficient deployment of AI workloads in real-world robotic and autonomous systems, not merely to implement software on top of it.

Qualifications

• Must have experience developing platform software, runtime systems, SDKs, firmware, drivers, or system software.
• Deep understanding of operating systems, software architecture, and performance optimization.
• Experience with compilers, runtime systems, graph execution frameworks, or AI deployment stacks.
• Experience with hardware/software co-design and heterogeneous computing systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the software architecture for the Velaura platform, including SDKs, runtime software, drivers, firmware, and developer tools.
• Drive compiler, runtime, scheduling, memory management, and workload orchestration technologies that maximize system performance and efficiency.
• Lead HW/SW co-design efforts spanning architecture, execution models, memory hierarchy, and system-level optimization.
• Enable seamless deployment of AI workloads in robots, drones, AMRs, and autonomous systems.
• Drive integration with ROS2, DDS, and related robotics software ecosystems.
• Build profiling, performance analysis, and optimization infrastructure across the full software stack.
• Establish software engineering processes and help build a world-class platform software team.
• Developers can deploy AI workloads quickly and efficiently on Velaura platforms.
• Robotics developers can integrate the platform with minimal friction.
• The software stack extracts maximum performance and efficiency from the hardware.
• Hardware/software co-design becomes a key competitive advantage.

Skills

Platform software development

OS and performance optimization

AI deployment stacks

Hardware/software co-design

Team leadership

Job description

Velaura, Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Platform Software Lead to define the software foundation for its Physical AI platform, spanning silicon architecture, system software, AI workloads, robotics middleware, and developer experience.

You will work with architects, performance modelers, and application developers to design an architecture that enables efficient deployment of AI workloads in real-world robotic and autonomous systems, not merely to implement software on top of it.