Apptronik
Robotics · Humanoid robots
- HQ
- Texas, US
- Founded
- 2016
- Website
- apptronik.com
Robotics · Humanoid robots
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 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.
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 |
| Staff MLOps Engineer Staff MLOps Engineer to own the technical direction of the MLOps platform, connecting teleoperation data collection to deployed autonomy on Apollo robots. Responsibilities include defining architecture, managing dataset lifecycle, experiment tracking, model registry, evaluation harnesses, and the serving/packaging path for models delivered to robots in the field. This role involves technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional influence. | ShipServe | 9 |
| Reinforcement Learning Engineer Reinforcement Learning Engineer at Apptronik, a human-centered robotics company. The role focuses on implementing and deploying state-of-the-art RL algorithms for humanoid robots (Apollo) to achieve performance in locomotion and manipulation tasks on physical hardware. Responsibilities include driving the development cycle from simulation to hardware, optimizing training pipelines, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with robotics/hardware teams. Requires expertise in RL frameworks, Python/C++, distributed training, robot dynamics, and sim-to-real transfer. A PhD/MS in CS/Robotics and a track record of deploying learning-based policies on physical robots are preferred. | ShipData | 9 |
| 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 Software & Integration Engineer Staff Integration Engineer for a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered humanoid robots. The role focuses on end-to-end integration, on-site deployment, and reliability of robots, including subsystems, teleoperation, networking, and fleet tooling. Responsibilities include root-cause analysis, hardening and automating provisioning, building field tooling and observability, and collaborating on system design. Requires strong C++/Python, Linux, networking, and hands-on robotics deployment experience. | ShipAgent | 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 |
| 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 Simulation Engineer - Dexterity Staff Simulation Engineer focused on dexterous hand simulation for a humanoid robot (Apollo). The role owns the accuracy of contact simulation, sim-to-real validation, sensor/actuator modeling, and evaluation scene construction, aiming to make simulation a reliable predictor of physical hand behavior. Requires experience with high-DOF manipulators, contact-rich simulation, and hardware-grounded sim-to-real validation. | ShipData | 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 |
| Software Engineer – Controls Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on controls infrastructure for a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered humanoid robots. The role involves delivering state-of-the-art planning and controls algorithms, characterizing robot locomotion and manipulation, and collaborating with autonomy and perception teams to enable a broad range of robot behaviors. Requires a Master's degree and experience in implementing high-performance robot controls, troubleshooting hardware, applying robotics fundamentals, and using C++ in a Linux environment with ROS and other robotics packages. | ShipAgent | 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 |
| Sr. Software Engineer - Wheeled Controls Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and deploying high-performance motion control systems for wheeled robotic platforms, integrating wheeled mobility with upper-body manipulation for commercial-grade deployment. The role involves algorithm development, hardware-to-software interfacing, productization, safety implementation, and testing. | Ship | 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 - Dexterity Staff Systems Engineer role at Apptronik, a robotics company focused on human-centered AI-powered robots. The role involves owning the end-to-end architecture, integration, and lifecycle of next-generation dexterous humanoid robot hands, bridging mechanical design, embedded systems, sensing, controls, and software integration. Responsibilities include defining system requirements, driving cross-functional execution, and ensuring performance, reliability, safety, and manufacturability targets are met, from concept through deployment. | Ship | 7 |
| Field Service Engineer Field Service Engineer for an AI-powered humanoid robot (Apollo) company, focusing on robot operation, repairs, maintenance, and spare parts management at customer facilities to ensure high uptime and reliability. This role involves documenting performance, tracking fleet reliability, training others, and collaborating with engineering teams on design for serviceability and integration with customer systems. | Ship | 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 |