Senior Computing Architecture Design Engineer - Pickle Robot

Job Title: Senior Computing Architecture Design Engineer
Job Location: Cambridge, MA
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/picklerobot/5e405797-3488-436b-9916-a2384aaec3db
Job Description: About this Role:
Pickle Robot is looking for a Senior Computing Architecture Design Engineer to help shape the future of warehouse automation. In this role, you'll lead the design, improvement, and maintenance of Pickle’s compute infrastructure—both on-robot and in the cloud.
You’ll be a key member of our multidisciplinary Platform and Infrastructure team, which supports compute, DevOps, telemetry, and system configuration across our growing fleet of robots. This is a high-impact role, requiring deep knowledge of systems architecture, performance optimization, and hardware-software integration.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical fundamentals with systems thinking and a desire to solve real-world problems in logistics automation. You’ll be responsible for driving high-performance computing solutions that ensure robust, secure, and efficient operation of our robotic systems.
What You’ll Accomplish:
Design a comprehensive computing architecture that optimizes for CPU/GPU performance while balancing thermal requirements.
Tune system configuration to optimize performance guided by benchmarking experiments.
Define and manage appropriate sensor/actuator controller integration and communication architecture for optimal performance.
Identify and work with industry partners to build functional prototypes to validate design concepts and architectural decisions.
Partner with hardware engineering to ensure effective integration into mobile robot environment.
Optimize system security, reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency
Who You Are:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Engineering, or related technical field.
Experience with performance profiling, benchmarking, and Linux system optimization.
Experience with ML/AI workloads and their specific hardware requirements, including NVIDIA Jetson.
Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash)Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker)
Ideally experience with industrial robotics computational infrastructure.
Strong verbal and communication skills.
Ability to participate in an on-call rotation for critical issue response.
Willing and able to work from our Charlestown, MA office at least three times per week.