Robotics & Autonomy Architect - Equity & Flex Work

Velaura; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Velaura is seeking a Robotics Systems Architect to bridge real-world robotics with next-generation compute platforms. You will analyze sensor, perception, planning, control stacks and map workloads to efficient architectures for robotics, drones, and embodied AI.

Lead cross-functional teams across hardware, software, and system architecture, ensuring end-to-end performance, reliability, and energy efficiency in deployed systems.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of robotics or drone system architectures.
• Experience with autonomy stacks including perception, sensor fusion, planning, and control.
• Experience with robotics frameworks such as ROS, Isaac, or similar autonomy platforms.
• Strong systems engineering mindset and ability to reason about end-to-end system performance.
• Experience deploying or architecting compute platforms for robotics or autonomous systems.
• Ability to work across hardware, software, and system architecture teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze modern robotics and drone system architectures, including sensing, perception, planning, control, and onboard compute.
• Understand how autonomy stacks process sensor data and translate those requirements into system-level compute needs.
• Map robotics and autonomy workloads onto compute platforms, identifying performance, latency, and power constraints.
• Work with hardware architects to define compute architectures optimized for robotics and embodied AI workloads.
• Evaluate real-world deployment requirements for robotics systems, including reliability, real-time performance, safety, and energy efficiency.
• Collaborate with AI model architects and silicon designers to align robotics workloads with next-generation hardware capabilities.
• Develop system-level workload models representing robotics and drone use cases.
• Help guide product direction by identifying emerging requirements across robotics, AMRs, drones, and other embodied AI systems.

Skills

Robotics architectures

Autonomy stacks

ROS/Isaac

Systems engineering

Compute platforms

Cross-functional teamwork

Job description

Velaura is seeking a Robotics Systems Architect to bridge real-world robotics with next-generation compute platforms. You will analyze sensor, perception, planning, control stacks and map workloads to efficient architectures for robotics, drones, and embodied AI.

Lead cross-functional teams across hardware, software, and system architecture, ensuring end-to-end performance, reliability, and energy efficiency in deployed systems.