Portal & Infrastructure Tech Lead

The role

The Portal & Infrastructure Tech Lead will own the technical architecture and engineering execution of the FF EAI Brain Developer Open Platform. You will lead an engineering team to design APIs, SDKs, and developer portal infrastructure for robotics capabilities.

What you will do

• Own the overall technical architecture of the FF EAI Brain Developer Open Platform
• Lead the design and engineering of robotics APIs and multi-language SDKs
• Oversee the technical architecture and engineering delivery of the developer portal
• Drive the build of internal tooling including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Collaborate with robotics R&D to define abstraction layers between software stacks and APIs
• Define and uphold engineering culture, standards, and code review practices
• Build, lead, and grow a high-performing platform engineering team
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex developer integration issues

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 3 years in a technical leadership role 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
• Expertise in multi-language SDK architecture and distribution
• Expertise in API gateway and developer portal infrastructure
• Expertise in 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
• Strong track record of leading and growing engineering teams
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Chinese is required

Nice to have

• 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
• Familiarity with ROS2, URDF, or real-time embedded software frameworks used in legged or humanoid robotics
• Experience with usage-based billing infrastructure, developer metering systems, or tiered platform access architecture
• Open-source maintainer experience, particularly of developer tooling, SDKs, or API client libraries with significant external adoption

Benefits

• Healthcare + dental + vision benefits (Free for you / discounted for family)
• 401(k) options
• Casual dress code + relaxed work environment
• Culturally diverse, progressive atmosphere
• Hands-on access to cutting-edge robotics and EAI technology

About the company

Faraday Future (FF) is a California-based embodied artificial intelligence ecosystem company. They produce user-centric, technology-first vehicles and robots to establish new paradigms in human-AI interaction.