Jobs at Apptronik

Leads the systems test team for integrated humanoid robots, owning system-level manual and automated testing, robotic fixtures, test infrastructure, defect reproduction, release readiness, and customer escape corrective actions. Builds and mentors the team, establishes test strategy and coverage, coordinates cross-functional debugging across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software domains, and serves as the final quality gate before customer delivery.

Serve as a strategic HR partner to Commercial, Product/Design, and Finance leaders. Lead organizational design, workforce planning, talent and performance management, employee relations, compensation partnership, engagement, succession planning, and organizational change. Coach leaders, address complex employee matters, use workforce data for recommendations, and support scalable People programs across geographically distributed teams in a high-growth robotics company.

Develop industrial designs for humanoid robots, from concept generation and 2D/3D sketching through refined CAD data, rendering, and 3D-printed prototypes. Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional teams to solve complex design challenges, define product requirements, and validate concepts. Apply strong aesthetic judgment, manufacturing knowledge, and user-centered design principles to create innovative electromechanical products.

Leads the enterprise information security program, including ISO 27001 certification, SOC 2, risk management, governance, security architecture, vulnerability management, incident response, IAM, third-party risk, and security awareness. Partners with executives, auditors, customers, and regulatory stakeholders while building a security and GRC team. The role requires hands-on implementation of enterprise controls across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and corporate systems.

Design and develop rotary and linear actuators for humanoid robots, including mechanical analysis, CAD, prototyping, assembly, testing, documentation, and pilot builds. Collaborate cross-functionally to evaluate concepts, optimize designs through FEA, create drawings and bills of materials, perform DVP&R, and improve designs for scalability and design for manufacturing and assembly. The role requires hands-on robotics or actuation experience and strong mechanical engineering fundamentals.

Leads talent acquisition operations, recruiting systems administration, scheduling workflows, SLAs, data governance, reporting, and recruiting programs. Manages Greenhouse ATS architecture, dashboards, surveys, training, and enablement materials while improving candidate and hiring manager experiences. Directly leads and develops the talent coordination team and scales processes, tools, and programs in a high-growth environment.

Lead the electrical engineering team developing compute and sensing systems for humanoid robots. Responsibilities include recruiting and mentoring engineers, guiding high-speed PCB and carrier board design, defining compute and power architectures, integrating perception sensors, validating high-speed protocols, and ensuring signal integrity, thermal performance, EMI/EMC compliance, and reliable data transmission in demanding robotic environments.

Develop high-fidelity actuator models and low-level torque/current controllers for humanoid robots. Design hardware characterization campaigns, apply system identification, validate sim-to-real fidelity, and build Python/C++ tooling for automation, model extraction, tuning, and simulator integration. Collaborate with Controls, Firmware, and Simulation teams to deploy validated models and controllers on real hardware.

Develop accurate simulation abstractions for tendon-driven robotic hands and validate them against physical hardware through system identification, actuator characterization, calibration, and testing. Own the sim-to-real pipeline for transferring reinforcement learning policies to hardware, including dynamics modeling, domain randomization, friction and backlash characterization, and control tuning. Lead technical execution autonomously and collaborate with reinforcement learning and controls teams to resolve simulation-to-reality discrepancies.

Lead electromagnetic design of custom BLDC and PMSM motors for humanoid robot joints from concept through prototype and volume manufacturing. Perform advanced simulations, define motor performance targets, validate designs using motor dyno testing, and correlate models with hardware. Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, electrical, controls, manufacturing, vendors, and university partners to optimize torque density, ensure design-for-manufacturing, manage technical requirements, and support technology transfer.

Leads a team developing real-time control software for humanoid robots. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, managing controls roadmap delivery, reviewing designs and code, maintaining testing and release quality, validating simulation-to-hardware performance, and collaborating with firmware, embedded software, learning, teleoperation, systems, and test teams. The role requires hands-on expertise in robot controls, C++ real-time software, physical robot deployment, and engineering leadership.

Owns validation, reliability, and production testing for robotic electronic components, including PCBAs, wiring harnesses, sensors, and compute modules. Designs HALT/HASS campaigns, test methods, fixtures, automation, and pass/fail criteria; characterizes sensor and compute performance; diagnoses failures to the board, connector, or component level; and transitions validated processes to manufacturing test teams.

Leads reliability strategy and testing for complex electromechanical robotic systems. Establishes MTBF targets, allocates reliability requirements, plans life and environmental testing, and determines sample sizes and confidence levels. Directs root-cause investigations across mechanical, electrical, and firmware domains, manages FRACAS, develops reliability models, and tracks reliability growth. Mentors engineers, collaborates with design, manufacturing, and quality teams, and communicates reliability risks and tradeoffs to leadership.

Develop and launch scalable manufacturing processes for complex electromechanical robotic assemblies. Responsibilities include prototype and NPI support, MBOM and process documentation, tooling and fixture development, process validation, DFM/DFA reviews, PFMEA, pilot builds, production ramp, contract manufacturer transfer, yield improvement, and root-cause analysis.

Develop and deploy dexterous manipulation software for multi-fingered robotic hands. Implement reinforcement and imitation learning, real-time C++ and Python control, sim-to-real pipelines, and tactile-feedback integration. Train and validate policies in IsaacSim, MuJoCo, or Drake, then debug and deploy them on physical robots. Apply robotics fundamentals including kinematics, dynamics, and Jacobian-based control while collaborating with hardware and systems teams.

Lead and scale inventory, warehouse, logistics, and procurement functions to improve inventory accuracy and material availability. Establish inventory controls, barcode workflows, ERP/MRP discipline, supplier management, inbound/outbound logistics, KPIs, and continuous-improvement processes. Partner cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Planning, and Finance while building and coaching operational teams to support higher-volume manufacturing.

Leads development and deployment of scalable automated manufacturing test software, hardware, and infrastructure for humanoid robots. Manages test engineers, drives hardware/software integration, supports production ramps and contract manufacturers, establishes test architecture and release practices, and ensures reliable troubleshooting, documentation, and maintainability across manufacturing environments.

Manage and scale hybrid Kubernetes infrastructure across bare metal, virtual machines, and public cloud. Build CI/CD and build systems, implement GitOps delivery and progressive rollouts, and establish backup, disaster recovery, observability, and SLO practices. Debug production issues across the Linux, networking, storage, and Kubernetes stack, automate infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Go, and Python, strengthen platform security, and partner with robotics teams on capacity, architecture, and production readiness.

Apptronik is connecting with interns, entry-level candidates, senior professionals, and research scientists in robotics and AI. Opportunities span perception, sensing, control, dynamics, software systems, hardware, and mechatronics, involving technologies such as computer vision, SLAM, reinforcement learning, ROS, C++, Python, embedded systems, and mechanical design. Roles support development and commercialization of the Apollo humanoid robot.

Own global sourcing strategy and supplier relationships for electronics commodities, including PCB, PCBA, harnesses, compute hardware, sensors, and components. Lead RFQs, negotiations, contracts, should-cost modeling, cost reduction, supplier qualification, dual sourcing, supply-risk mitigation, and NPI readiness. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and program management to support prototype through volume production while managing capacity, lifecycle, compliance, and supplier performance.