Apptronik
Robotics · Humanoid robots
- HQ
- Texas, US
- Founded
- 2016
- Website
- apptronik.com
Apptronik currently has 15 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on the application stage, representing 40% of their AI hiring. Engineering is the dominant function, with one listing in Product. The company is hiring in the United States. Frequent technology tags include embodied AI, model serving, and inference infrastructure, suggesting a focus on deploying AI models within robotic systems. Over the last 30 days, Apptronik has added 6 new AI roles, a 100% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Robotics · Humanoid robots
Apptronik currently has 17 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Data Platform Engineer, Integration Engineer - Connect, Robot Platform Software Engineer, Senior Autonomy Software Engineer, Senior Learning Perception Engineer - SLAM. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Apptronik's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (41%), agents (24%), data (24%). 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 (3 roles).
Job postings at Apptronik most frequently reference: embodied ai, model serving, inference infra, rl robotics, vision.
In the past 30 days, Apptronik has posted 6 new AI-related roles.
Currently tracking 13 active AI roles, down 50% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $170k–$350k (avg $231k).
| 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 |
| 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 Autonomy Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to design and deploy learning-driven, mission-level autonomy systems for humanoid robots, enabling them to operate robustly in real-world human environments. Focuses on coordination, execution, and adaptation of robot behaviors using learning-based approaches, integrating outputs from various robot subsystems, and ensuring real-world deployment, robustness, and scalability. | AgentPost-train | 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer - Deployment & Interaction Senior Staff Software Engineer to define the architecture for deploying, integrating, and interacting with humanoid robots (Apollo) in real-world customer environments. This role focuses on the last mile of customer engagement, designing interfaces, tools, and workflows for deployment infrastructure and human-robot interaction (HRI). It involves leading technical strategy for integration, customer site setup, and supporting field engineering teams, with a strong emphasis on reliability and customer outcomes. | 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 |
| 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 |
| Simulation Engineer - Design and Behavior - Dexterity Apptronik is seeking a Simulation Engineer to own the "Design-to-Simulation" loop for their next-generation dexterous hands. This role involves ingesting hand designs into simulation, constructing high-fidelity interaction scenes, implementing teleoperation pipelines, and using simulation to train and test advanced manipulation behaviors, collaborating with controls teams to prototype skills. The engineer will also create automated analysis tools for workspace and kinematic analysis, and partner with the hardware team to measure and reduce the sim-to-real gap. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| SimOps Engineer Apptronik is seeking a SimOps Engineer to architect and maintain large-scale simulation infrastructure for their humanoid robot, Apollo. This role involves applying high-fidelity simulation to robotics, managing virtual environments for locomotion, manipulation, and synthetic data generation, and building scalable frameworks for system optimization and reliability analysis. | Data | 7 |
| Integration Engineer - Connect Apptronik is seeking an Integration Engineer to integrate their humanoid robot, Apollo, into customer production facilities. This role bridges the gap between the robot's software stack and traditional industrial automation, ensuring seamless communication with PLCs, safety systems, and enterprise management software (WMS/ERP). Responsibilities include developing workflows, fleet coordination, monitoring, and troubleshooting complex integration issues. | Agent | 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 |