Apptronik currently has 24 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 46%, are in the application stage. The company is primarily hiring for Engineering positions, with 18 roles, and also has 6 Product roles. Frequent tech tags include embodied_ai, model_serving, and inference_infra. Over the last 30 days, Apptronik has added 9 new AI roles, marking a 29% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 20 active AI roles, with 22 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $165k–$350k (avg $232k).
Apptronik currently has 24 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Staff Electrical Engineer - Compute (2), Director of Product Management, Software, Field Service Engineer - New Product Introduction & Development, Lead Software Engineer - Dexterous Manipulation, Product Manager - Human Robot Interaction. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Apptronik's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (46%), agents (21%), serving infrastructure (17%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Apptronik is hiring AI talent in: United States (4 roles).
Job postings at Apptronik most frequently mention: Robotics, Manufacturing, SLAM, Data Science, Robotics Simulation.
In the past 30 days, Apptronik has posted 10 new AI-related roles. That is a +43% change versus the prior 30 days (7 → 10).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer to develop state-of-the-art RL algorithms for humanoid robots' locomotion and manipulation, focusing on deploying policies on physical hardware, optimizing training pipelines, and mentoring junior engineers. | ShipData | 10 |
| Reinforcement Learning Engineer Apptronik is seeking a Reinforcement Learning Engineer to develop AI-powered robots, specifically the Apollo humanoid platform. The role focuses on architecting neural networks and implementing RL algorithms for locomotion and manipulation tasks on physical hardware, optimizing training pipelines, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to bring robots to market at scale. | ShipData | 9 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Dexterous Manipulation Lead Software Engineer for dexterous manipulation in robotics, focusing on developing learning-based control algorithms for human-like precision in robotic hands. This role bridges research and production, involving architectural definition, sim-to-real strategy, and influencing hardware design for scalable deployment of AI-powered robots. | Agent | 9 |
| Software Engineer - Dexterous Manipulation Software Engineer focused on implementing, tuning, and deploying reinforcement learning and learning-based control for high-DOF, multi-fingered robotic hands, translating research into production-grade software for simulation and physical hardware. | AgentData | 8 |
| Staff Product Manager, Applied AI Staff Product Manager, Applied AI at Apptronik, a human-centered robotics company. The role focuses on driving the product vision and roadmap for AI-powered robots, specifically integrating, adapting, and fine-tuning foundation models into the robot's autonomy stack. Responsibilities include owning the AI model roadmap, defining data strategy, translating customer needs into model requirements, and ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer benefits. Experience with modern robot learning techniques and integrating/adapting models is required. | Post-trainAgent | 8 |
| Senior Senior Simulation Engineer - Core Simulation Platform Apptronik is seeking a Senior Simulation Engineer to develop and scale their core simulation platform for AI-powered robots. This role involves building high-performance digital twins for RL training, controls validation, and CI/CD, with a focus on improving sim-to-real transfer and supporting AI research and perception teams. Requires strong C++/Python, robotics fundamentals, experience with modern simulators, and large-scale training workloads. | DataAgent | 8 |
| Senior Learning Perception Engineer - SLAM Senior Learning Perception Engineer focused on SLAM, visual-inertial odometry, world modeling, and learning-based perception for humanoid robots. The role involves designing, optimizing, and deploying deep learning models for real-time perception tasks, integrating multi-sensor data, and contributing to scalable training and inference pipelines. Requires a strong background in robotics, SLAM, state estimation, deep learning for computer vision, and experience shipping ML/Perception or SLAM systems on edge hardware. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Perception Learning Engineer Apptronik is seeking a Senior Perception Learning Engineer to lead research and development of advanced perception systems for their humanoid robots. This role involves designing and optimizing deep learning models for real-time perception tasks, architecting scalable data and inference pipelines, and integrating multi-sensor data for robust autonomy. The position requires a blend of research innovation and practical engineering to deliver deployable, high-performance perception stacks for production robotics platforms. | ServeData | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Humanoid Controls Staff Software Engineer focused on Humanoid Controls for Apptronik's Apollo robot. The role involves advancing whole-body control, learning-based hand control, mobile manipulation, and teleoperation, translating state-of-the-art methods into robust capability for production at scale. This includes setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and collaborating cross-functionally. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Staff Technical Program Manager Staff Technical Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs spanning ML operations and perception for humanoid robotics, acting as the primary program interface to a strategic AI partner. This role involves establishing program structure for a new site, driving ML and perception program execution, and shaping external collaborations. | DataServe | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, Teleoperation The Senior Product Manager, Teleoperation will own the teleoperation product, focusing on driving product vision, ensuring seamless execution across hardware/software, and translating market demands into executable roadmaps. This role involves defining requirements for VR/XR interfaces, applying human factors rigor to operator experience, partnering with data collection operations, and defining customer-facing fine-tuning workflows for deployed robots. The goal is to maximize teleoperated data collection throughput and quality, and to connect operator experience to training outcomes for robot learning. | Data | 7 |
| Product Manager, Perception and Navigation Product Manager for Perception and Navigation at a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots. The role focuses on driving the product vision, managing the perception and navigation software roadmap, defining technical requirements, setting evaluation metrics, owning data pipelines, and ensuring safety for embodied AI systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Director of Product Management, Software Director of Product Management, Software for a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots. This role leads product management for all on and off-robot software, including autonomy, simulation, software platforms, and cloud tools. The Director will own the software product vision, build and lead a team of product managers, and be accountable for software products across their full lifecycle, from research to deployment and continuous improvement. Key responsibilities include defining commercial software strategy, establishing roadmap governance, and ensuring software meets applicable standards. Experience with autonomous robots, complex software systems, and cloud-based products is required. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Staff Electrical Engineer - Compute Staff Electrical Engineer to lead the design and implementation of the next-generation compute solution for a humanoid robot platform, focusing on real-time performance, sensor bandwidth, and functional safety. This role involves architecting, selecting components, designing PCBs, and ensuring integration with complex robotics algorithms and AI tasks. | Serve | 7 |
| Field Service Engineer - New Product Introduction & Development Apptronik is seeking a Field Service Engineer to support their AI-powered humanoid robot, Apollo. This role focuses on maintaining the uptime of pre-production and development robots, closing the feedback loop between field service and engineering by documenting failures and identifying patterns, and participating in Design for Serviceability reviews. The engineer will validate new service procedures, build service readiness for new configurations, and act as the GSS representative in NPI reviews. The ideal candidate has 3-6+ years of experience with complex electromechanical systems, preferably in robotics, and strong diagnostic, communication, and problem-solving skills, with familiarity in ROS/ROS2 being a plus. | Ship | 7 |
| Sr. Software Engineer – Real-Time Controls Senior Software Engineer focused on real-time controls for human-centered, AI-powered robots (Apollo humanoid robot). Responsibilities include developing production-grade C++ software infrastructure, integrating low-level firmware with high-level controls, implementing state estimation and diagnostics, characterizing robot performance, and integrating learned policies into the real-time stack. Requires strong C++, robotics fundamentals, and experience with ROS2 and simulation/HIL testing. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Staff Perception Hardware Engineer Staff Perception Hardware Engineer responsible for the physical integration, validation, and scaling of camera, optics, and data link hardware for a humanoid robot. This role involves hands-on troubleshooting, custom module development, ISP tuning, and ensuring high-speed data integrity for perception systems that feed into AI models and real-time control. | Serve | 7 |
| Robotics Test Engineer Robotics Test Engineer responsible for writing automated tests for Apollo's software at the integration layer, partnering with senior engineers on defect investigations, and growing regression coverage. The role involves working with pytest, HIL benches, and the broader RSIT platform to ensure software-level requirements are verifiable. It emphasizes growing expertise in robotics test engineering with mentorship and ownership. | Ship | 7 |
| Robotics Software Intern – Real-Time Controls Apptronik is seeking a Real-Time Controls Intern to develop and test C++ software for their humanoid robot, Apollo. The role involves bridging high-level commands with physical hardware execution, integrating sensor data, implementing mathematical models for motion, and gathering performance data. This position is for students or researchers with a strong foundation in C++, Python, physics, math, and robotics basics, working within a collaborative, agile team. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Robot Platform Software Engineer Apptronik is seeking a Robot Platform Software Engineer to develop and implement scalable software solutions for their AI-powered humanoid robot, Apollo. The role involves contributing to platform evolution, architecture, hardware-software integration, resource profiling, system adaptation, performance benchmarking, and adhering to engineering standards. The ideal candidate will have strong C++ skills, architectural awareness, hardware interaction experience, analytical profiling abilities, and familiarity with distributed systems and containerization in a robotics context. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Staff Systems Engineer - Robot-as-a-Service Platform Staff Systems Engineer for robot software at Apptronik, a human-centered robotics company. The role involves leading software design and development for general-purpose robots operating in human environments, driving cross-functional teams, and ensuring scalability and reliability of platform software. Focus on full-stack robotics, RTOS, and real-time systems. | Ship | 7 |