Principal Platform Architect – Physical AI Data & Runtime Platform, Kitchener, ON
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About the role: Are you a senior software architect passionate about designing scalable platforms for AI, robotics, industrial data, and execution-oriented applications?
Do you enjoy turning technical ambiguity into robust architectures, clear interfaces, and production-grade systems?
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Platform Architect to define the architecture of our Canada-based platform capability that supports robotics data ingestion, validation, transformation, governance, workflow execution, and future runtime-oriented Physical AI applications.
In this role, you will be responsible for the platform backbone: APIs, data contracts, event-driven services, ingestion pipelines, workflow and orchestration patterns, security architecture, observability, and system integration concepts. You will work closely with team leadership, AI/ML and robotics specialists, backend engineers, frontend engineers, and DevOps engineers to shape a platform that can scale from early pilots to broader industrial deployment!
What will you do?
- Define the end-to-end platform architecture across data ingestion, metadata management, APIs, workflow execution, connectors, and deployment foundations.
- Establish architectural principles for a modular platform that can support robotics data use cases today and broader Physical AI workflows over time.
- Design data contracts, service boundaries, integration patterns, and interface standards for robot, vision, edge, and research-facing systems.
- Shape the platform architecture for customer data onboarding, dataset versioning, validation, governance, and evaluation support.
- Define scalable patterns for workflow orchestration, asynchronous processing, event-driven services, and system observability.
- Collaborate with robotics integration engineers to define connector strategies for robot controllers, sensors, cameras, and other edge sources.
- Guide decisions around cloud-native services, storage layers, API security, deployment models, and production hardening.
- Ensure that the platform can evolve cleanly into future domain areas such as Level 3 skill enablement, validation harnesses, and task workflow execution.
- Mentor engineers across backend, integration, and platform domains and help raise overall technical quality.
- Contribute to architecture reviews, technical roadmaps, and build-vs-partner decisions where appropriate.
- Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Robotics, or a related field.
- Proven experience, typically 10+ years, in software architecture, platform engineering, backend systems, or large-scale distributed applications.
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven design, security-by-design, and scalable data platforms.
- Strong experience defining architecture for complex, cross-functional products with multiple stakeholders and evolving requirements.
- Familiarity with industrial data systems, AI/ML platform patterns, or robotics-related software systems.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Hands-on mindset with the ability to move between strategic architecture and implementation guidance.
- Experience with robotics software systems, runtime platforms, workflow engines, ROS/ROS2, or edge integration.
- Experience in AI/ML data platforms, model evaluation platforms, or MLOps tooling.
- Exposure to industrial protocols, control-adjacent software environments, or real-time integration constraints.
- Experience helping new engineering teams establish architecture from the ground up.
- Impact: Build the founding team and platform capability for a strategic Physical AI initiative in Canada.
- Innovation: Work at the intersection of robotics, AI, industrial software, workflow orchestration, and platform engineering.
- Leadership: Shape the direction, culture, and operating model of a new strategic engineering organization.
- Collaboration: Partner with leading global research, product, and engineering teams.
- Growth: Help define how Physical AI platform capabilities scale from data foundations to runtime-enabled industrial applications.
- Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
- Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
- Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
- Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
- Competitive total rewards package.
- Profit sharing available.
- Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
- Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
- Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
- Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
- Employee perks and discounts.
- Diversity and inclusivity focused.
The company’s purpose is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more liveable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare.
For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.
In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast-to-coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada.
To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca
While we appreciate all applications we receive, we advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
