- Platform Architecture & Technical Strategy:
Own the overall technical architecture of the FF EAI Brain Developer Open Platform — including the API gateway, SDK distribution infrastructure, developer portal backend, authentication and authorization systems, application marketplace, and cloud developer services. Define the architectural principles, scalability targets, and reliability standards that the platform is built to. Make major technical tradeoff decisions and ensure the architecture can support a rapidly growing external developer community.
- API & SDK Engineering Leadership:
Lead the design and engineering of the platform's core developer-facing products: the robotics APIs (covering motion control, perception, sensor fusion, autonomous decision-making, and inter-device communication) and the multi-language SDKs (Python, Node.js, Go, Java, and others as needed). Establish and enforce API design principles, versioning and deprecation policies, backward-compatibility standards, and SDK release processes that developers can depend on.
- Developer Portal & Tooling Infrastructure:
Oversee the technical architecture and engineering delivery of the developer portal — including developer account systems, API key management, usage metering, self-service documentation, sandbox environments, and developer analytics dashboards. Drive the build of internal tooling that accelerates the platform team's own velocity: CI/CD pipelines, automated API testing frameworks, SDK build and packaging automation, and documentation generation systems.
- Robotics Integration & Middleware Abstraction:
Collaborate closely with the FF robotics R&D and EAI Brain engineering teams to define clean abstraction layers between the internal robotics software stack and the external developer-facing APIs. Ensure that platform APIs expose the right level of capability to developers without compromising system safety, proprietary IP protection, or hardware compatibility across robot hardware generations.
- Engineering Standards & Technical Excellence:
Define and uphold the engineering culture and standards of the platform team — including code review practices, testing requirements (unit, integration, contract), security standards, incident response protocols, and documentation quality. Conduct architectural reviews for major new features and provide technical mentorship to engineers at all levels.
- Team Leadership & Hiring:
Build, lead, and grow a high-performing platform engineering team. Own hiring decisions, set clear performance expectations, provide ongoing coaching and feedback, and create an engineering environment where the best people do their best work. Partner with product management to ensure engineering capacity is allocated to the highest-impact platform investments.
- Developer Community Technical Enablement:
Serve as the ultimate technical escalation point for complex developer integration issues. Partner with the Developer Platform Operations team on advanced technical support cases, and engage directly with strategic developer partners on integration architecture and best practices. Use insights from developer technical challenges to inform platform improvement priorities.