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Robotics Technical Architect

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$112.9k - $338.3k/yr+ Bonus opportunities
Senior, Expert
Bachelor's, Associate's
Boston, MA, USA+42 moreMore locations: Seattle, WA, USA | Orlando, FL, USA | Houston, TX, USA | Des Moines, IA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Detroit, MI, USA | Cleveland, OH, USA | Bentonville, AR, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Miami, FL, USA | Morristown, NJ, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Raleigh, NC, USA | Redmond, WA, USA | Philadelphia, PA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Charlotte, NC, USA | Arlington County, Arlington, VA, USA | St. Louis, MO, USA | Milwaukee, WI, USA | Carmel, IN, USA | Beaverton, OR, USA | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Sacramento, CA, USA | Walnut Creek, CA, USA | Kirkland, WA, USA | Albany, NY, USA | Scottsdale, AZ, USA | Columbus, OH, USA | Hartford, CT, USA | Oklahoma City, OK, USA | New York, NY, USA | Minneapolis, MN, USA | Denver, CO, USA | Mountain View, CA, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | San Diego, CA, USA | St. Petersburg, FL, USA | Cincinnati, OH, USA | Overland Park, KS, USA
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About the job

Requirements
  • At least 8 years of professional experience in robotics engineering, robotics software, autonomous systems, industrial automation, or related fields.
  • Demonstrated experience architecting and deploying industrial or commercial robotics systems in production environments.
  • Strong proficiency in Robot Operating System (ROS) or ROS 2, Python, and C++ for robotics applications and platform integration.
  • Hands-on experience with robotics intelligence capabilities such as perception, localization, simultaneous localization and mapping, motion planning, task planning, sensor fusion, controls, or autonomous navigation.
  • Experience with fleet management, multi-robot coordination, orchestration platforms, or distributed robotic systems.
  • Experience integrating robotics with industrial systems and protocols such as programmable logic controllers/supervisory control and data acquisition (PLC/SCADA), OPC UA, MQTT, EtherNet/IP, manufacturing execution systems (MES), warehouse management systems (WMS), or enterprise resource planning (ERP).
  • Understanding of cloud, edge, and GPU-enabled deployment patterns, containers, application programming interfaces (APIs), event-driven integration, observability, and production operations.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of 12 years of work experience. An associate degree is acceptable with a minimum of 6 years of work experience.
Responsibilities
  • Define and own end-to-end technical architecture for robotics intelligence platforms, autonomous systems, robotic fleets, and robotics services, covering robot hardware, software, middleware, artificial intelligence models, orchestration, integration, and operational support.
  • Architect robotic intelligence platforms spanning perception, localization, simultaneous localization and mapping, sensor fusion, motion planning, task planning, autonomous decision logic, robot learning, and runtime execution.
  • Define architecture patterns for robotics foundation models, synthetic-data pipelines, simulation-based training, model evaluation, simulation-to-real transfer, and on-robot inference.
  • Architect multi-robot orchestration and fleet-management platforms, including task allocation, traffic management, execution monitoring, exception handling, and cross-system coordination.
  • Define orchestration services for task allocation, resource scheduling, traffic management, state and event management, exception handling, human intervention, execution monitoring, and fleet optimization.
  • Design integration patterns across robot original equipment manufacturer systems, fleet managers, ROS/ROS 2, PLC/SCADA, MES, WMS, ERP, Internet of Things platforms, industrial data platforms, and site operational workflows.
  • Define robotics runtime and platform architecture across cloud, edge, and GPU infrastructure, including connectivity, deployment topology, performance, scalability, resilience, security, and cost trade-offs.
  • Establish robotics observability, telemetry, diagnostics, remote operations, configuration management, software distribution, upgrade, rollback, and lifecycle-management patterns.
  • Partner with digital-twin and simulation teams to define robotics simulation, virtual commissioning, synthetic-data, robot-training, and deployment-validation approaches.
  • Define production-readiness and service-management standards covering testing, safety, cybersecurity, commissioning, supportability, operational continuity, and transition from pilot to scaled deployment.
  • Lead architecture reviews, design authority, architecture decision records, technical risk management, and engineering governance throughout pursuits and delivery.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, and platform engineering teams, and establish reusable engineering standards and practices.
  • Support pre-sales and solutioning through technical discovery, scoping, architecture proposals, estimates, demonstrations, partner selection, risk assessment, and delivery transition.
  • Build reusable reference architectures, adapters, integration patterns, test assets, and accelerators for robotics intelligence, Unified Operations Platforms, fleet operations, and managed robotics services.
  • Collaborate with ecosystem partners, including NVIDIA, robotics original equipment manufacturers, industrial automation providers, fleet-management vendors, cloud providers, and industrial software companies.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac ROS, Omniverse, Jetson, IGX, CUDA-enabled robotics, or comparable robotics and simulation ecosystems.
  • Experience defining architecture decisions, integration contracts, non-functional requirements, risks, test strategy, and production-readiness controls.
  • Experience translating robotics architecture and operational implications for business, engineering, IT, and OT stakeholders.
  • Experience with robotics foundation models, robot learning, reinforcement or imitation learning, synthetic data, and simulation-to-real workflows.
  • Experience architecting Unified Operations Platforms, robotics control towers, multi-vendor fleet orchestration, or managed fleet operations.
  • Experience with industrial robots, collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots/autonomous guided vehicles, mobile manipulation, machine vision, and autonomous inspection systems across multiple vendors.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), MLOps/DevOps, edge orchestration, telemetry, remote support, and robotics software lifecycle management.
  • Knowledge of functional-safety standards such as ISO 10218 and ISO/TS 15066, safeguarding, risk assessment, responsible artificial intelligence, and OT cybersecurity.
  • Experience taking robotics programs from proof of value through production deployment, multi-site rollout, and lifecycle operations.
  • Experience in manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, engineering, laboratories, data centers, or other asset-intensive operations.
  • Experience in consulting, systems integration, product engineering, or client-facing delivery, including solutioning and pursuit support.

About the company

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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