Staff Software Architect (Robotics & AI)

Location: Torrance, California, United States. Applicants must be able to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.

Salary: $141,380–$224,500 USD per year

Company

Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing systems for automotive, aerospace, defense, and other demanding industries.

What you will do

• Define system architecture for multithreaded C++ and Python applications spanning robotics control, automation, AI/ML, and optimization.
• Architect operator-facing GUIs, diagnostics, monitoring, simulation, modeling, calibration, and fault-detection systems.
• Design integrations with ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, electromechanical hardware, sensors, and manufacturing systems.
• Define architecture for planning and optimization systems, generative AI, autonomous agents, and production inference.
• Establish CI/CD, containerization, automated testing, build systems, code quality, and production delivery practices.
• Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, collaborate across engineering and business functions, and support commissioning and production hardware integration.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, AI/ML, or a related field, plus 5+ years of professional experience including architecture and design.
• Expert modern C++ proficiency, C++17 or newer, and strong Python skills.
• Experience designing multithreaded, real-time, performance-sensitive, scalable, and reliable software systems.
• Experience architecting end-to-end GUI applications for monitoring, diagnostics, and control.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, Docker, Kubernetes, CMake, debugging, Git, documentation, and production-grade delivery.
• Must be able to lawfully access technology covered by U.S. export controls and meet U.S. employment eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, kinematics and dynamics, trajectory generation, industrial automation, and mechatronic integration.
• SAT/SMT, combinatorial optimization, constraint programming, PDDL, planning and scheduling libraries, and scalable cloud-native architecture.
• LLMs, multimodal models, agentic systems, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vLLM, PyTorch, Hugging Face, MLOps, and model monitoring.
• Advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, or robotics experience; a Master’s or Ph.D.; C#/TypeScript; or leadership of medium-to-large architectural initiatives.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, year-end shutdown, and paid parental leave.
• HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Reimbursement opportunities for learning and development.
• Collaborative, high-performing, mission-driven environment focused on innovation and reducing the manufacturing footprint.