Sr Software Architect Perception Systems

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end architecture and technical direction of the perception stack, including a real-time graph-based dataflow runtime and system foundations.
• Bring perception algorithms and ML models from prototype to on-device production, with telemetry, profiling, privacy, and security built into the stack.
• Align hardware, software, and platform teams; guide milestones, engineering standards, and architectural decisions.

What they ask for

• 10+ years building production systems software in C/C++ or Swift, with deep knowledge of concurrency, scheduling, memory management, and IPC.
• Track record shipping latency-sensitive or real-time systems with measurable performance and reliability targets; experience designing dataflow or algorithm-graph runtimes across heterogeneous compute.
• Experience designing telemetry, tracing, and profiling; working knowledge of classical perception and robotics; experience deploying ML models into production runtimes.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and program-milestone partnership; clear communication. BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Real-time Linux or RTOS experience; Darwin/XNU internals, secure execution environments, or microkernel-based isolation.
• Consumer hardware at scale; robotics middleware and logging; ML evaluation pipelines; familiarity with learned perception, multimodal models, or agentic AI workflows.

Pay

$184,700 and $324,800 (USD base salary)

Tools

C/C++, Swift, CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, PREEMPT_RT, ROS 2, DDS

AI focus

Architect perception and ML infrastructure; productionize on-device ML models and perception algorithms, balancing latency, accuracy, power, and memory. Preferred exposure to learned perception, multimodal models, or agentic AI workflows.