SDK/API & Developer Platform Lead - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$200,000 - $300,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role will define and lead development of public APIs, SDK structure, command-line tools, sample applications, documentation, developer workflows, model and camera examples, developer portal content, compatibility matrices, and the path from “unboxing the eval kit” to running real robotics and AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Own SDK architecture, public APIs, command-line tools, sample applications, documentation strategy, and developer workflows.
- Set API standards, versioning, error handling, logging, packaging, compatibility, and deprecation policies across platform, AI runtime, camera, and robotics components.
- Lead the developer experience for installing the SDK, flashing boards, running demos, deploying models, using cameras, and integrating with applications.
- Work with AI, multimedia, robotics, and model-zoo teams to deliver model examples, camera-to-NPU pipelines, ROS examples, containers, and reference applications.
- Own developer documentation structure, getting-started guides, tutorials, API references, troubleshooting guides, migration guides, and known-issues workflows.
- Help define developer portal requirements including docs, downloads, model/app catalog, camera compatibility, KB integration, entitlement/access control, and support-bundle workflows.
What you'll need
- Strong experience building SDKs, developer platforms, embedded software APIs, or customer-facing developer tools.
- Strong C/C++ and Python experience, with ability to design clean APIs and production-quality examples.
- Experience with Linux-based embedded systems, AI/ML runtimes, robotics, camera pipelines, or hardware/software platforms.
- Strong sense of developer experience, documentation quality, API usability, and release discipline.
- Ability to work across kernel, runtime, compiler, multimedia, robotics, tools, SQA, and product teams.
- Experience translating complex low-level capabilities into usable customer-facing software.
- Experience leading technical teams or major SDK/API architecture areas.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI accelerator SDKs, robotics SDKs, Jetson-like platforms, edge AI products, or semiconductor developer kits.
- Familiarity with ONNX/PyTorch/TFLite model flows, ROS 2, GStreamer, OpenCV, containers, Linux packaging, or Python packaging.
- Experience building developer portals, documentation sites, SDK installers, CLI tools, sample catalogs, knowledge bases, or model zoos.
- Experience with API governance, semantic versioning, compatibility matrices, customer migration guides, and release notes.
- Experience working with early customers, field teams, support teams, or developer relations.
- Ability to write excellent technical documentation and set a high bar for customer-facing materials.
Skills: SDK architecture, public APIs, developer workflows, AI runtime, Linux-based embedded systems, developer portal
This role has been open 7 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
912
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Velaura AI | All employers we track in this specialty (912 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 912 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 6 | 6078 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 31 d | 51 d (−20 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: SDK architecture, public APIs, developer workflows, AI runtime, Linux-based embedded systems, developer portal
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 250 open roles · median 49 d
- Qualcomm · 60 open roles · median 61 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 28 d
- Cerebras · 40 open roles · median 74 d
- Graphcore · 38 open roles · median 101 d
- Intel Corporation · 33 open roles · median 21 d
How we counted: 912 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.