Robotics & Autonomy Architect — Systems & Compute Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Job summary

Velaura is building next-generation compute technology for cloud, edge, and PhysicalAI. We seek a Robotics Systems Architect to bridge real-world robotic systems with compute platforms, analyzing architectures from sensors to onboard compute and guiding workloads onto efficient hardware.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and AI teams to map workloads, evaluate latency and power, and shape product direction for robotics, drones, and embodied AI.

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

Robotics compute platforms

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Velaura is building next-generation compute technology for cloud, edge, and PhysicalAI. We seek a Robotics Systems Architect to bridge real-world robotic systems with compute platforms, analyzing architectures from sensors to onboard compute and guiding workloads onto efficient hardware.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and AI teams to map workloads, evaluate latency and power, and shape product direction for robotics, drones, and embodied AI.