9 days ago
Base Salary
$141k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own system architecture for multithreaded C++ and Python applications supporting robotics control, automation, AI/ML, and optimization.
- Design end-to-end solutions including operator-facing GUIs, diagnostics, monitoring, simulation, calibration, and fault detection.
- Architect integrations with ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, electromechanical hardware, sensors, and manufacturing systems.
- Define architecture for planning and optimization systems, generative AI, LLMs, multimodal models, and agentic systems.
- Establish containerization, build systems, automated testing, code quality, and production deployment practices.
- Lead technical design reviews and mentoring while collaborating with controls, electrical, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, data, legal, and product teams.
- Support commissioning, troubleshooting, production hardware integration, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, AI/ML, or a related field and 5+ years of professional experience, including architecture or design experience.
- Expert proficiency in modern C++ and Python with experience in multithreaded, real-time, and performance-sensitive software design.
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, integrated software systems and operator-facing applications for monitoring, diagnostics, and control.
- Experience with infrastructure and deployment architecture, automated testing, containerization, CMake, debugging, and production-grade delivery.
- Strong Git, documentation, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.
- Preferred qualifications include ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, kinematics and dynamics, trajectory generation, industrial automation, mechatronic integration, SAT/SMT, constraint programming, PDDL or planners, and cloud-native architecture.
- Preferred qualifications include LLMs, multimodal models, agentic patterns, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vLLM, PyTorch, Hugging Face, multi-agent systems, inference optimization, MLOps, model monitoring, and AI compliance.
- Master’s or Ph.D., publication or open-source experience, C#, TypeScript, advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, robotics, or leadership of medium-to-large architectural initiatives are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with 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.
- Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
- Collaborative, mission-driven, high-performing work environment.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsRobotics
About Divergent
Divergent designs, manufactures, and assembles structures and systems using its DAPS software-driven, additive manufacturing and automation platform. The privately held company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Torrance, California, operates multiple adaptive factories and offers production programs and Tier 1 supply to global automotive OEMs while supporting U.S. aerospace and defense companies. Its work targets complex, lightweight, production-ready solutions across critical industrial sectors.