Principal Software Architect - Robotics & AI

We're Hiring: Principal Software Architect - Robotics & AI

Location: HSR Layout, Bengaluru (Work from Office)

Experience: 10+ Years

Compensation: Up to ?90 LPA

About the Role:

We are looking for a hands-on technology leader to drive software architecture, engineering quality and integrated delivery for advanced robotics and autonomous systems.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define software architecture across robotics, autonomy, cloud services and AI/ML infrastructure.

- Lead critical technical design, coding, code reviews and complex debugging.

- Drive software quality, CI/CD, automated testing, security and production reliability.

- Oversee integration and release readiness, including simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

- Lead engineers and technical leads across multiple teams.

- Ensure reliable software performance on real-world hardware.

Must-Have Skills & Experience:

- 10+ years of experience in Robotics or AI, including technical leadership.

- Proven experience architecting and deploying software on physical hardware such as robots, autonomous vehicles, drones or embedded systems.

- Strong hands-on expertise in Python, C++ and ROS.

- Understanding of autonomy technologies such as SLAM, perception, planning and AI/ML.

- Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, large-scale data/model-training pipelines and CI/CD.

- Proven ownership of system architecture, production releases and engineering delivery across multiple teams.

Important:

This role requires hands-on technical leadership and proven hardware-based product experience. Pure cloud/SaaS architects, research-only profiles and non-technical engineering managers will not be suitable.