Senior Architect, Real-Time AI Simulation Platform

Utilidata; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision

401(k) matching

Flexible PTO

Mentorship and growth opportunities

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Utilidata is seeking a technical leader to own the KDE simulation platform, spanning real-time control to batch execution, reporting to VP of AI & Applications. You will design architectures, manage cross-functional collaboration, and guide a hands-on team.

This role emphasizes performance envelopes, deterministic replay, and data contracts, with travel up to 25% and preference for candidates in the Bay Area or Ann Arbor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Physics, or a related field.
• 10+ years in systems architecture, simulation platforms, real-time or hardware-in-the-loop systems, embedded systems, or high-performance distributed platforms.
• Hands-on player-coach leading small, high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience designing and delivering simulation platforms or large-scale test systems used as production hardware, including data ingestion, telemetry, and playback at production scale, and the ability to design platform APIs and data contracts used by multiple teams.
• Deep expertise in system-level behavior—scheduling, concurrency, memory access patterns, latency budgets, jitter measurement, and determinism at sub-millisecond scale.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex designs for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture of KDE as the simulation platform for development, testing, and validation before production.
• Architect systems spanning heterogeneous time domains—with coherent time management and deterministic behavior across real-time and batch paths.
• Design and evolve the core simulation platform: time synchronization, signal routing, deterministic replay, APIs and data contracts for multiple teams.
• Define and maintain the platform's performance envelope—latency, jitter, throughput, and fidelity—and lead optimization across the full stack.
• Serve as the technical authority for simulation and validation, partnering with algorithms, QA, product, hardware, firmware, and GTM teams.
• Build and lead an engineering team spanning real-time systems, simulation infrastructure, power modeling, and GPU calibration.
• Represent KDE on a standing cross-functional council, arbitrate priorities and maintain architectural direction with senior peers.

Skills

Systems architecture

Real-time systems

Hardware-in-the-loop

Distributed platforms

Leadership

Team management

Communication skills

Travel up to 25%

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Physics, or a related field

Tools

GPU-based systems

TensorRT-LLM

Triton

vLLM

Job description

Utilidata is seeking a technical leader to own the KDE simulation platform, spanning real-time control to batch execution, reporting to VP of AI & Applications. You will design architectures, manage cross-functional collaboration, and guide a hands-on team.

This role emphasizes performance envelopes, deterministic replay, and data contracts, with travel up to 25% and preference for candidates in the Bay Area or Ann Arbor.