Platform Software Lead – Physical AI - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$200,000 - $500,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 July 2026 by the employer.
Help build the software foundation for Velaura's Physical AI platform.
About the role
This role involves defining and building the software foundation for Velaura’s Physical AI platform, sitting at the intersection of silicon architecture, system software, AI workloads, robotics middleware, and developer experience. You will define the architecture and enable efficient deployment of AI workloads in real-world robotic and autonomous systems.
What you'll do
- Define the software architecture for the Velaura platform, including SDKs, runtime software, drivers, firmware, and developer tools.
- Drive compiler, runtime, scheduling, memory management, and workload orchestration technologies.
- Lead HW/SW co-design efforts spanning architecture, execution models, memory hierarchy, and system-level optimization.
- Enable seamless deployment of AI workloads in robots, drones, AMRs, and autonomous systems.
- Drive integration with ROS2, DDS, and related robotics software ecosystems.
- Build profiling, performance analysis, and optimization infrastructure across the full software stack.
What you'll need
- Strong experience developing platform software, runtime systems, SDKs, firmware, drivers, or system software.
- Deep understanding of operating systems, software architecture, and performance optimization.
- Experience with compilers, runtime systems, graph execution frameworks, or AI deployment stacks.
- Experience with hardware/software co-design and heterogeneous computing systems.
- Strong software engineering, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively across architecture, hardware, and software teams.
Nice to have
- Background in AI platform software, runtime systems and compilers, embedded systems and firmware, robotics and autonomous systems, GPUs and heterogeneous computing, AI accelerators, mobile and edge computing platforms, or real-time and safety-critical systems.
Skills: software architecture, SDKs, runtime software, HW/SW co-design, AI workloads
This role has been open 84 days — well above the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
968
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$236k
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| Metric | Velaura AI | All employers we track in this specialty (968 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 968 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 6 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 40 d | 52 d (−12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: software architecture, SDKs, runtime software, HW/SW co-design, AI workloads
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 278 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 20 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 94 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 84 d
How we counted: 968 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.