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Senior Principal Technical Solution Architect
Cerence Inc. · Remote – California Bay Area · Posted 95 days ago
A Moving Experience. Senior Principal Technical Solution Architect – Humanoid Robotics Location: California Bay Area
Physical AI is transforming how humans interact with intelligent machines. At Cerence , we are extending our leadership in Voice AI and Conversational Intelligence into Humanoid Robotics, building software platforms that enable robots to understand, reason, communicate, and act in the real world.
Role Overview
The Senior Principal Technical Solution Architect owns the end-to-end software architecture for our humanoid robot applications. You will bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI, robotic operating systems, and physical hardware. In this role, you will guide critical technical decisions, manage physical system constraints, and supervise an agile, high-performing startup development team.
Your Impact
- Own the end-to-end application architecture for humanoid robots.
- Define reusable software platforms spanning robotics, AI, voice, cloud, and edge systems.
- Lead technical decisions involving robotics frameworks, operating systems, SDKs, AI infrastructure, and deployment architectures.
- Guide proof-of-concepts into production-ready customer deployments.
- Collaborate with robotics OEMs, technology partners, and cross-functional engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
System Architecture: Design scalable, modular software architectures for humanoid robot applications.
Tech Stack Selection: Evaluate and select robotic software frameworks, developer SDKs , etc.
Hardware-Software Co-design: Collaborate closely with mechanical and electrical teams to optimize system latency, compute allocation, thermal envelopes, battery utilization, and power budgets.
Platform Reuse: Drive a platform strategy enabling modular reuse of application logic across different physical robot forms.
AI & Agentic Systems: Define how foundation models, agentic orchestration frameworks, memory systems, multimodal AI, and reasoning engines integrate into robot applications.
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