Jobs in El Segundo, CA

About the role

The Portal & Infrastructure Tech Lead will own the technical architecture, engineering execution, and long-term platform quality of the FF EAI Brain Developer Open Platform. You will set the technical direction for how FF's core robotics capabilities are exposed to the world — designing APIs and SDKs that are powerful, stable, and genuinely enjoyable to build with — and you will lead the engineering team that brings that vision to life. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will be expected to make and defend major architectural decisions, review and contribute code, define engineering standards, and serve as the primary technical interface between the platform engineering team and the broader organization — including robotics R&D, cloud infrastructure, product, and security. The ideal candidate is a seasoned platform engineer who has built systems used by large external developer communities, understands what makes an API a pleasure or a pain to work with, and has the leadership range to grow a high-performing engineering team while remaining deeply technically engaged. Someone with strong opinions — grounded in experience — about what makes a great developer platform.

What you'll bring

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role (tech lead, principal engineer, engineering manager, or equivalent) on a platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing API product.
• Demonstrated experience building systems used by a substantial external developer community.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Deep hands-on expertise in designing and building RESTful and/or gRPC APIs at scale, multi-language SDK architecture and distribution, API gateway and developer portal infrastructure, and developer authentication systems (OAuth 2.0, API key management, rate limiting).
• Working knowledge of robotics software architectures, including middleware frameworks (such as ROS/ROS2 or similar), real-time control systems, sensor data pipelines, and motion planning systems.
• Proven ability to reason about distributed systems at scale — including reliability engineering, latency-sensitive API design, graceful degradation, and security threat modeling for externally-facing developer infrastructure.
• Strong track record of leading and growing engineering teams, setting technical direction, and communicating complex architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Chinese is required.
• Direct experience building developer platforms in the robotics, AI/ML, IoT, or autonomous systems domain
• Prior work at companies recognized for platform and API excellence (e.g., Stripe, Twilio, AWS, NVIDIA, Google Cloud, or comparable)
• Experience designing and operating application marketplaces, including app review pipelines, sandboxing, and developer trust systems
• Familiarity with ROS2, URDF, or real-time embedded software frameworks used in legged or humanoid robotics

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