Senior Architect — Real-Time AI Signals Platform

Knightscope, Inc; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary

Job summary

Knightscope, Inc. seeks a Sr. Architect to lead the design of the AI-native Signals platform, the real-time data layer that ingests, fuses, and acts on signals from autonomous machines, sensors, and security operations.

You will own end-to-end architecture, partner with robotics, ML, and product teams, and set engineering standards while mentoring engineers to ensure low-latency, high-reliability deployments for customers and operators.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in a lead architect or principal engineer role.
• Experience designing large-scale real-time data platforms (streaming, event-driven, pub/sub).
• Strong AI/ML systems architecture including model serving and MLOps.
• Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure expertise, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical architecture for Knightscope's AI-native Signals platform, from edge sensor ingestion through cloud processing and customer delivery.
• Design real-time, event-driven, and streaming data pipelines capable of fusing signals from autonomous machines, robots, and IoT devices at scale.
• Architect the AI/ML infrastructure and model-serving layer that turns raw signal data into actionable alerts, insights, and automated responses.
• Set platform-wide standards for data contracts, APIs, observability, security, and reliability across engineering teams.
• Partner with Robotics, ML, Product, and Security Operations teams to translate field requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and lead technical due diligence on new platform components and vendors.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers, and act as a technical escalation point for the Signals platform.
• Drive architectural reviews and ensure the platform meets low-latency, high-availability requirements for mission-critical security use cases.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Real-time data platforms

Distributed systems

AI/ML systems architecture

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Mentoring senior engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Pulsar

Model serving

Job description

Knightscope, Inc. seeks a Sr. Architect to lead the design of the AI-native Signals platform, the real-time data layer that ingests, fuses, and acts on signals from autonomous machines, sensors, and security operations.

You will own end-to-end architecture, partner with robotics, ML, and product teams, and set engineering standards while mentoring engineers to ensure low-latency, high-reliability deployments for customers and operators.