Robotics & Autonomy Systems Architect

• Bay Area (Onsite or Hybrid)
• Anywhere
• Posted 5 days ago

Location: Bay Area (Onsite or Hybrid)

About Velaura AI

Velaura AI is building the next generation of compute platforms for artificial intelligence. As AI expands beyond the cloud into edge systems and physical environments, the constraints of energy efficiency, latency, and system architecture are becoming fundamental.

A particularly exciting frontier is physical and embodied AI-systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real world. Applications such as robotics, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), drones, and other intelligent machines demand new approaches to compute that combine real-time responsiveness, energy efficiency, and advanced AI capabilities.

Our mission is to design silicon and systems from first principles to enable these emerging classes of AI applications. Velaura combines deep semiconductor expertise with hardware-software co-design to deliver breakthrough performance per watt for AI workloads across cloud, edge, and embodied intelligence.

We are assembling a world-class team of architects and engineers to tackle some of the most ambitious challenges in computing.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Robotics Systems Architect who deeply understands how modern robotic and drone systems are designed and deployed.

In this role, you will help bridge the gap between real-world robotic systems and next-generation compute platforms. You will analyze the architecture of robotics and autonomous systems-from sensors and perception pipelines to planning, control, and onboard compute-and help translate these requirements into hardware and system architectures.

Your work will guide how Velaura's compute platforms support emerging applications in robotics, drones, and embodied AI.

This role requires strong systems-level thinking, with the ability to understand complete robotics stacks and map their workloads onto efficient compute architectures.

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.

Required Qualifications

• Strong understanding of robotics or drone system architectures.
• Experience working 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing compute architectures for robotics or edge AI systems.
• Familiarity with sensor modalities such as cameras, lidar, radar, and IMUs.
• Experience with real-time systems and robotics control loops.
• Experience with drones, autonomous vehicles, or industrial robotics.
• Understanding of how AI models integrate into robotics pipelines.

Why Join Velaura

You will work at the intersection of robotics systems and next-generation AI compute architecture, helping shape the compute platforms that power the next wave of intelligent machines.

This is an opportunity to work with a small team of experienced builders who have designed and delivered some of the industry's most widely deployed compute platforms.

If you are passionate about robotics systems, embodied AI, and the future of intelligent machines, we would love to hear from you.

Velaura is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. We also take affirmative action to offer employment opportunities to minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.

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