Hardware Architect - Cognitive Robotics; human

Hardware Architect - Cognitive Robotics (human)

Neura Robotics
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The Hardware Department is at the heart of developing our high-performance and innovative robots. It's in charge of designing, constructing, and optimizing the robot's physical components, including mechanical parts, sensors, and electrical systems. The team collaborates closely with other departments, like software development and product management, to ensure that the hardware aligns seamlessly with software and system requirements. This involves tasks like mechanical design and prototyping of components, using CAD tools and 3D printing technologies.

Full-time

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This is where Artificial Intelligence comes to life. The Hardware Department designs, constructs, and optimizes all physical components of our cognitive robots. As NEURA scales from prototype to production of five million robots, the decisions made at the architecture level today will shape the platform for years to come. The Hardware Architect is the person who makes those decisions — with the authority to define the blueprint and the accountability to make it work in the real world.

You define the hardware blueprint for the world's most advanced cognitive robots.

NEURA's humanoid robot is a deeply complex cyber-physical system: distributed computing, high-density power electronics, a body‑area sensor network, real‑time actuation control, and a cognitive AI stack — all packed into a human‑scale form factor and designed for mass production. The Hardware Architect owns the overall hardware system architecture, translates product requirements into physical design constraints, and ensures that every sub‑system — from PCBAs to cabling to compute modules — fits coherently into a scalable, manufacturable whole.

• Hardware system architecture: Define and maintain the top‑level hardware architecture of the robot platform — compute topology (SoCs, MCUs, edge AI accelerators), power architecture (bus voltages, distribution, protection), communication backbone (EtherCAT, CAN‑FD, Ethernet, Ser Des), and sensing architecture (sensor selection, placement, interface strategy).

• Requirements & partitioning: Translate product, performance, and safety requirements into hardware requirements; partition functionality across electronics, embedded software, and mechanical subsystems; manage technical interfaces between all hardware disciplines.

• Architecture governance: Lead hardware architecture reviews; define and enforce hardware design standards, interface control documents, and design rules across the electronics, firmware, and mechanical teams.

• Technology selection: Evaluate and select key platform components — compute SoCs, power management ICs, communication controllers, sensor ICs — balancing performance, availability, NRE cost, and long‑term scalability.

• Cross‑disciplinary integration: Serve as the primary technical interface between the hardware team and software/AI architecture teams; ensure the hardware platform exposes the right capabilities (memory bandwidth, I/O, compute) to meet AI inference and real‑time control requirements.

• DFM and scalability: Ensure architectural decisions are compatible with high‑volume manufacturing; drive design‑for‑reliability, design‑for‑testability (DFT), and design‑for‑cost principles from day one.

• Technical mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to senior electronics, firmware, and system engineers; support hiring and team growth in the hardware domain.

A rare combination: system‑level thinker and hands‑on hardware expert.

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