Physical AI Architect

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Serve as the technical architect for Pickle Robot's Physical AI stack, owning the end-to-end design of perception, planning, and control systems deployed on production hardware
• Lead the application of diffusion-based policy learning and optimal control techniques to robot manipulation and picking tasks, with a focus on real-world reliability and cycle time performance
• Define the technical roadmap for how diffusion models and optimal control complement each other in Pickle Robot's autonomy architecture, and build internal alignment around that vision
• Drive hardware integration across sensors, compute, and actuators, partnering closely with firmware, mechanical, and software engineering teams to ensure AI systems are co-designed with the physical platform and…
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at the intersection of model inference, motion execution, and hardware throughput
• Mentor senior engineers and help grow the technical depth of the broader autonomy team