Principal AI SoC Runtime Architect for Edge Robotics

QUORE IT : Talent Sourcing & Recruitment; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Benefits package

Job summary

QUORE IT : Talent Sourcing & Recruitment seeks a Principal AI SoC Runtime Software Architect to own the runtime at the center of ultra-low-power AI SoCs for robotics and physical AI. You will be a hands-on senior technical leader with deep embedded runtime experience, ideally from imaging, multimedia, or AI inference on silicon.

This is a key early hire to define the architecture, then build and lead a team of engineers around it, coordinating heterogeneous engines for low-latency,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a runtime software engineer or architect.
• Has shipped a runtime on an embedded SoC (on-device, not data center).
• Camera or imaging pipeline experience (image processing, ISP, V4L2, GStreamer, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the embedded runtime that moves data from sensors (camera, audio, IMU) through image processing, preprocessing, NPU inference, and post-processing, then up to robotics applications.
• Coordinate execution across heterogeneous engines (CPUs, ISPs, DSPs, and the NPU), leveraging DMA, caching, shared buffers, and synchronization for low-latency pipelines.
• Define interfaces between the runtime, Linux kernel drivers, firmware, the compiler, and the client SDK, with stable APIs, observability, and fault recovery.
• Debug and tune end-to-end performance problems across software and hardware, measuring latency, throughput, bandwidth, and power.
• Lead work across runtime, kernel, driver, multimedia, and SDK engineers, and help hire the team around this role.

Skills

C

C++

Embedded Linux

Linux kernel drivers

DMA

IOMMU/SMMU

Cache coherency

Heterogeneous compute

V4L2

GStreamer

OpenCL

ONNX Runtime

TensorRT

OpenVINO

TensorFlow Lite

ROS 2

ISP / Camera pipelines

Education

BS in EECS or Computer Engineering

Tools

QNN/SNPE

Job description

QUORE IT : Talent Sourcing & Recruitment seeks a Principal AI SoC Runtime Software Architect to own the runtime at the center of ultra-low-power AI SoCs for robotics and physical AI. You will be a hands-on senior technical leader with deep embedded runtime experience, ideally from imaging, multimedia, or AI inference on silicon.

This is a key early hire to define the architecture, then build and lead a team of engineers around it, coordinating heterogeneous engines for low-latency,