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🕒 June 3

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Gugu Robotics

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🛍️ eCommerce

Artificial Intelligence • Robotics • eCommerce

Gugu Robotics is a pioneering startup based in West Africa, dedicated to harnessing the power of AI, robotics, and drone technology to create innovative solutions for various industries. Founded by visionary engineer Emmy Pencil, the company specializes in designing and building customized robotic systems, drones, and AI-enabled electric vehicles that address critical challenges across sectors such as agriculture, military, medical, and beyond. With a diverse team of experts, Gugu Robotics aims to redefine possibilities in automation and efficient energy solutions to shape the future of technology.

📋 Description

• Define technical strategy and lead architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems for end-to-end engagements • Architect scalable cloud-native solutions, including multi-cloud and hybrid strategies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes) • Design data architectures including warehouses, data lakes, and pipelines for batch and streaming workloads (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Spark, Kafka) • Design AI/ML systems including model serving, MLOps pipelines, feature stores, and LLM-based applications (e.g., SageMaker, Vertex AI, MLflow, Hugging Face) • Define infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and DevOps standards across engagements (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions) • Drive performance, scalability, cost, and reliability optimization across deployed systems • Ensure architecture meets security, governance, and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2) • Lead cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives • Bring an AI-forward mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude, Cursor, and other modern AI assistants to ship higher-quality work at pace • Partner with senior leadership and clients as the principal technical voice on strategy and direction • Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders alike • Engage closely with engineering, data, AI, and product teams to align architecture with broader business priorities • Develop and maintain architecture documentation, standards, and guidelines • Define and champion architectural standards and best practices on the engagements you support • Mentor experienced engineers and architects, helping them grow their technical judgment and impact • Own the most difficult architectural and integration challenges, serving as the senior technical decision-maker • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend tools, frameworks, and patterns that improve architecture over time.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in technical leadership roles • Deep expertise in cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) • Strong background in microservices, serverless, containers, and event-driven systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, EventBridge) • Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, GitHub Actions) • Strong data architecture expertise across relational, NoSQL, and big data systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, Kafka) • Hands-on experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and orchestration (e.g., Airflow, Prefect, dbt) • Strong experience designing AI/ML systems for production, including LLMs, MLOps, and model serving (e.g., SageMaker, Vertex AI, MLflow, Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow) • Solid understanding of networking, security, identity, and access management in cloud environments • Experience with governance, compliance, and observability frameworks • Strong software engineering skills (Python, APIs, containerization) • Track record of senior technical leadership and mentoring experienced engineers • Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to translate technical depth across audiences • Demonstrable usage of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor • Multi-cloud architecture experience, AI ethics or responsible AI experience, or enterprise architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP) is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• At Robots & Pencils, we design AI systems for a human world. • Every role here contributes directly to that mission.