Autonomy Solution Architect, Project Technical Lead

Venti Technologies • Chicago, IL

5d

About The Position

Venti Technologies builds autonomous trucks and supporting systems for ports, rail yards, and airports. The Autonomy Solution Architect, Project Technical Lead owns the technical solution and software release quality for a customer project, translating site conditions, operations, and constraints into a deployable autonomous solution and carrying the design through go-live. The role makes release-readiness decisions for each project release and works alongside the PM / TPM, who owns customer commitments and priority, and the US Technical Director, who manages the real-time customer channel and US site.

The role supports customer discovery and requirements clarification, defines solution architecture and operational design domains, and translates customer needs into specifications and acceptance criteria for engineering teams. It also owns the technical plan for pilots and site acceptance testing, designs end-to-end solutions across vehicles and autonomy systems, assesses field issues, and leads root-cause analysis and fixes.

As technical lead, this position owns the technical plan, key solution decisions, software quality, release validation, and go/no-go decisions. It contributes to product roadmaps, reusable architecture standards, and customer escalations, while advising the PM / TPM on technically sound scope, schedules, and commitments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or a similar field.
• 10+ years of experience in autonomous systems, robotics, or complex industrial automation.
• At least 4 years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions, systems, or field engineering.
• Track record of leading technical delivery and software releases for large deployments.
• Working knowledge of the autonomy stack, including perception, localization, planning, controls, and how their limitations shape a deployment.
• Experience with ROS 2, Linux, and simulation-based validation.
• Ability to read logs and rosbags to diagnose issues.
• Clear written and spoken English, ability to explain technical trade-offs to executives and operators, and ability to maintain a technical position under commercial pressure.

Nice To Haves

• Domain experience in container terminals, rail intermodal yards, airports, or other logistics hubs.
• Experience with HD mapping, site digitization, or vehicle-to-infrastructure integration.
• Background in fleet operations, remote operation, or teleoperation systems.
• Comfort with system integration, including REST/gRPC APIs, messaging, networking such as LTE/5G and Wi-Fi, and fleet or mission management software.
• Familiarity with autonomous vehicle safety practices such as ISO 26262, ISO 21448/SOTIF, ISO 3691-4, or UL 4600.

Responsibilities

• Support the PM / TPM and US Technical Director in customer technical discovery and requirement clarification, including site surveys, operational workflows, traffic and safety rules, and integration points with terminal or yard systems.
• Translate customer requirements into clear technical specifications and acceptance criteria for perception, planning, controls, localization, and mapping engineering teams.
• Own solution architecture for new sites and expansions, including operational design domain (ODD) definitions and known limitations.
• Own the technical plan for pilots and site acceptance testing; define release content, acceptance criteria, and success KPIs; support the US team running on-site demos and acceptance.
• Design end-to-end solutions covering vehicles, autonomy configuration, maps, fleet management, remote operation, and connectivity.
• Assess the severity and impact of field issues, propose priorities to the PM / TPM, and drive root-cause analysis and fixes.
• Serve as a technical counterpart to customer engineering teams alongside the US Technical Director.
• Act as technical lead for the customer project, owning the technical plan and key solution decisions.
• Own software quality and release readiness, review simulation and testing results, and make go/no-go decisions for project releases.
• Issue periodic release candidate builds with release notes, specify testing focuses, and ensure field fixes return to mainline through the release path.
• Identify and manage project technical risks and lead release validation reviews with the PM / TPM and US Technical Director.
• Advise the PM / TPM on scope, schedule, and customer commitments to ensure promises are technically sound.
• Contribute to the product roadmap based on customer needs, field performance, and recurring root-cause analysis findings.
• Contribute solution architecture standards, reference designs, and reusable patterns across ports, rail yards, and airports.
• Own project feature requirements and solutions and review designs with perception, planning, controls, localization, mapping, fleet, and remote operation teams.
• Support customer escalations and steering-committee reviews as a trusted technical expert.

Benefits

• World-class benefits
• Flexible working arrangements
• International working environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior