Physical AI Architect

Pickle is looking for a Physical AI Architect to develop and deploy AI-powered systems for warehouse automation, with a focus on real-world reliability and cycle time performance.

Requirements

• 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.
• Drive hardware integration efforts across sensors, compute, and actuators.
• Define the technical roadmap for how diffusion models and optimal control complement each other in Pickle Robot's autonomy architecture.
• Partner with firmware, mechanical, and software engineering teams to ensure AI design decisions are grounded in hardware constraints and operational realities.
• Mentor senior engineers and help grow the technical depth of the broader autonomy team.

Benefits

• Health, dental, & vision insurance
• Unlimited vacation
• Federal and state holidays
• 401K contributions of 5% of salary
• Travel supplies
• Other items to make working life more fun, comfortable, and productive