Autonomy Solution Architect, Project Technical Lead
Venti Technologies7 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Support customer technical discovery through site surveys, workflow analysis, safety-rule review, and integration-point clarification.
- Translate customer requirements into technical specifications and acceptance criteria for perception, planning, controls, localization, and mapping teams.
- Own solution architecture, operational design domain definition, technical plans, release content, acceptance criteria, and deployment KPIs for new sites and expansions.
- Design end-to-end solutions spanning vehicles, autonomy configuration, maps, fleet management, remote operation, and connectivity.
- Assess field issues, recommend priorities, drive root-cause analysis, and support fixes through the release path.
- Lead technical project decisions, manage technical risks, review validation results, and make release readiness go/no-go decisions.
- Issue release candidate builds and notes, define testing focus areas, and lead release validation reviews.
- Advise project management on technically sound scope, schedules, and customer commitments.
- Contribute to product roadmaps, solution architecture standards, reference designs, and reusable patterns.
- Act as a technical counterpart for customer engineering teams and support escalations and steering-committee reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a similar field.
- 10+ years of experience in autonomous systems, robotics, or complex industrial automation.
- 4+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions, systems, or field engineering.
- Track record of leading technical delivery and software releases for large deployments.
- Working knowledge of perception, localization, planning, controls, and autonomy-stack deployment limitations.
- Experience with ROS 2, Linux, simulation-based validation, logs, and rosbags.
- Strong written and spoken English and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to executives and operators.
- Preferred experience in container terminals, rail intermodal yards, airports, logistics hubs, HD mapping, site digitization, vehicle-to-infrastructure integration, fleet operations, remote operation, or teleoperation systems.
- Preferred familiarity with REST/gRPC APIs, messaging, networking, LTE/5G, Wi-Fi, fleet or mission management software, and autonomous-vehicle safety practices including ISO 26262, ISO 21448/SOTIF, ISO 3691-4, or UL 4600.
Benefits
- World-class benefits.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- International working environment.
Tech Stack
gRPCLinux
Categories
Forward DeployedSolutions Engineering
About Venti Technologies
Venti Technologies builds autonomous driving systems and fleet operations software for logistics vehicles in seaports, airports, warehouses, and factories. The privately held company, founded in 2018 and headquartered in the Boston area, deploys its systems at industrial sites in Asia and integrates with existing terminal workflows. Venti sells and supports end‑to‑end autonomy solutions for yard tractors and related vehicles, and raised a Series A in 2023.