At Certis, we are reshaping the future of security and operations through cutting-edge robotics and intelligent automation. As a regional leader in deploying advanced robotic solutions at scalefrom quadrupeds to autonomous mobile unitswe are creating a Smarter, Safer World powered by AI, robotics, and emerging technologies.
To accelerate this journey, we're looking for a Robotics Solution Architect to lead the design, deployment, and optimisation of robotic systems across real-world environments. You will act as the critical bridge between engineering, operations, and clientsensuring that every deployment not only works but thrives.
Role summary
We are hiring a Principal System Architect / Tech Lead to design and lead the engineering of a robotics fleet platform that enables safe, reliable operation of heterogeneous robots (wheeled robots, quadrupeds, humanoids) in public and shared spaces (airports, hospitals, malls, campuses). You will own the end-to-end technical architecture of the fleet control layer - robot abstraction, mission execution, safety policies, observability, and integration with enterprise workflow systems, and driving delivery across a multidisciplinary team. This role requires deep systems engineering judgment, strong technical leadership, and the ability to build robust software under real-world robotics constraints.
Key responsibilities
Architecture & technical ownership
- Design the overall platform architecture, and put deep engineering boots in: robot abstraction layer, mission runtime, fleet services, interfaces, and data contracts.
- Establish technical standards for reliability, safety, security, scalability, and maintainability.
- Make trade-offs and drive from design to ship execution across multiple robot types and vendors.
Fleet control & mission execution
- Design mission execution primitives: task decomposition, state machines/behavior trees, retries, escalation and teleoperation handoff.
- Build fleet-scale capabilities: multi-robot coordination, scheduling, congestion/battery awareness, and multi-site operations.
Robot integration strategy
- Define adapter patterns and conformance requirements to onboard new robot platforms quickly.
- Ensure vendor-proof operation: platform remains functional even when vendor support is limited or unavailable.
Safety, observability, and operations readiness
- Build safety mechanisms into the platform.
- Own observability.
- Define release gates and operational playbooks together with QA and deployment teams.
Cross-team collaboration
- Partner with product and deployment teams to translate field requirements into stable platform capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and lead technical planning, reviews, and execution cadence.
Qualifications (required)
- 8+ years of experience in systems architecture and platform engineering for robotics, autonomous systems, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven ability to design and ship production-grade systems with high reliability and clear operational metrics.
- Strong software engineering skills (Python/C++ /Java).
- Solid understanding of robotics operating constraints, unreliable networks, edge compute, sensor-driven events.
- Experience with event-driven systems, distributed services, and observability/monitoring best practices.
- Strong technical leadership: setting direction, reviewing designs, mentoring, and aligning stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience integrating multiple robot vendors and building a robot abstraction layer.
- Familiarity with ROS/ROS2 and on-robot middleware patterns.
- Experience with fleet management systems, mission planning, or multi-agent coordination.
- Exposure to security practices for safety-critical or public-space deployments.
- Experience with data pipelines and model deployment in robotic.
