Robotics Architecture Lead: Autonomous Systems & Fleet

Accenture; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 123,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Robotics Technical Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for robotics intelligence platforms, autonomous systems, fleet orchestration and robotics services within the Physical AI portfolio. You will collaborate with solution architects, delivery teams and client engineers to scale robotics services in production.

The role requires 8+ years in robotics, strong ROS/ROS 2, Python and C++, and hands-on experience with industrial automation, cloud/edge deployment, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in robotics engineering, robotics software, autonomous systems, industrial automation or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and deploying industrial or commercial robotics systems in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in ROS/ROS 2, Python and C++ for robotics applications and platform integration.
• Hands-on experience with robotics intelligence capabilities such as perception, localization, SLAM, motion planning, sensor fusion, controls or autonomous navigation.
• Experience with fleet management, multi-robot coordination, orchestration platforms or distributed robotic systems.
• Experience integrating robotics with industrial systems and protocols such as PLC/SCADA, OPC UA, MQTT, EtherNet/IP, MES, WMS or ERP.
• Understanding of cloud, edge and GPU-enabled deployment patterns, containers, APIs, event-driven integration, observability and production operations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end technical architecture for robotics intelligence platforms, autonomous systems, robotic fleets and robotics services, covering robot hardware, software, middleware, AI models, orchestration, integration and operational support.
• Architect Robotic intelligence platforms spanning perception, localization, SLAM, sensor fusion, motion planning, task planning, autonomous decision logic, robot learning and runtime execution.
• Define architecture patterns for robotics foundation models, synthetic-data pipelines, simulation-based training, model evaluation, simulation-to-real transfer and on-robot inference.
• Architect multi-robot orchestration and fleet-management platforms, including task allocation, traffic management, execution monitoring, exception handling and cross-system coordination.
• Define orchestration services for task allocation, resource scheduling, traffic management, state and event management, exception handling, human intervention, execution monitoring and fleet optimization.

Skills

Leadership

Client-facing communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Python

C++

Cloud/edge deployment

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Robotics Technical Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for robotics intelligence platforms, autonomous systems, fleet orchestration and robotics services within the Physical AI portfolio. You will collaborate with solution architects, delivery teams and client engineers to scale robotics services in production.

The role requires 8+ years in robotics, strong ROS/ROS 2, Python and C++, and hands-on experience with industrial automation, cloud/edge deployment, and