Robotics Platform Architect for Real-World Autonomy

FieldAI; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

FieldAI in Irvine is building a scalable platform for physical AI that runs across legged robots, ground vehicles, and future embodiments. You will shape interfaces, data models, and runtime systems that enable autonomous capabilities to move from robots to fleet-level applications.

You will design and own end-to-end performance, tracing, and deployment on real hardware, collaborating with autonomy, hardware, simulation, and product teams to ship reliable autonomy at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Robotics/EE or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years building production robotics or systems software with platform/infrastructure ownership
• Experience architecting distributed robotic systems with multiple autonomous agents
• Deep ROS 2 and middleware expertise including pub/sub, RPC, QoS, and discovery
• Experience designing versioned interfaces, SDKs, or standards
• Proficiency in modern C++ and Python for robust libraries and APIs
• Systems and performance engineering on Linux/embedded edge compute
• Production track record deploying software on real hardware in field

Responsibilities

• Architect the software platform for physical AI across robots and embodiments
• Define interfaces and contracts between major subsystems with versioned APIs
• Model robot capabilities, state, and intent for dashboards, agents, and fleet platforms
• Develop mechanisms to discover and track robot capabilities dynamically
• Decouple intelligence from specific robots to enable rapid embedding across hardware
• Own platform end-to-end performance, including latency and throughput
• Build middleware and runtime infrastructure for high-bandwidth data movement
• Create profiling, tracing, benchmarking, and system-behavior methodologies
• Collaborate across autonomy, hardware, simulation, infra, product, and deployment teams
• Set technical direction for FieldAI platform engineering and mentor the team

Skills

C++

Python

Distributed systems

ROS 2

API design

Performance engineering

Middleware

Linux

Education

B.S. in CS/Robotics/EE

Tools

Linux

Real-time Linux

Git

ROS tooling

Job description

FieldAI in Irvine is building a scalable platform for physical AI that runs across legged robots, ground vehicles, and future embodiments. You will shape interfaces, data models, and runtime systems that enable autonomous capabilities to move from robots to fleet-level applications.

You will design and own end-to-end performance, tracing, and deployment on real hardware, collaborating with autonomy, hardware, simulation, and product teams to ship reliable autonomy at scale.