Apptronik
Robotics · Humanoid robots
- HQ
- Texas, US
- Founded
- 2016
- Website
- apptronik.com
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.
Robotics · Humanoid robots
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 compliance with safety standards for AI-powered robots. | Serve | 5 |
| Principal Electrical Engineer - Compute and Sensing Apptronik is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead the architecture and design of the compute and sensing hardware for their Apollo humanoid robot. This role involves end-to-end hardware design, including custom carrier boards for high-performance modules like NVIDIA Jetson, multi-modal sensor integration, and ensuring functional safety for operation in human-occupied environments. The engineer will also define the long-term roadmap for compute and sensing evolution and mentor other engineers. | — | 5 |
| Principal Electrical Engineer - Compute and Sensing Apptronik is seeking a Principal Compute & Sensing Engineer to lead the architecture and design of the 'nervous system' for their Apollo humanoid robot. This role involves designing high-performance compute and sensory hardware, including NVIDIA Jetson-based systems, multi-modal sensors, and high-bandwidth data pipelines, with a strong emphasis on functional safety and reliability for operation in human-occupied environments. | — | 5 |
| Full-Stack Software Lead - Fleet Connect Lead the technical direction and delivery of the Interface team within Fleet Connect, guiding the design and execution of software systems that connect Apollo robots to customer workflows, operational dashboards, and enterprise infrastructure. This role involves hands-on full-stack development, API design, industrial automation integration, and ensuring software quality and operational readiness for a robotics company. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager Senior Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional teams through a full product lifecycle for AI-powered humanoid robots, focusing on integration, planning, and execution from concept to scaled production and commercialization. | — | 5 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own and maintain the deployment of cloud-based infrastructure to customer sites, ensuring smooth deployment of solutions that collect training data and deploy models to real-time robotic systems. This role will accelerate progress integrating AI models to humanoid robot hardware. | — | 5 |
| Technical Lead Manager - Production Engineering Apptronik is seeking a Technical Lead Manager for their Production Engineering team to build and lead an organization responsible for the last-mile engineering of humanoid robots, turning subsystems into field-ready systems. The role involves team leadership, end-to-end ownership of integration and acceptance testing, on-site deployment, establishing reliability standards, fleet deployment and observability, and setting technical direction for provisioning and tooling. The ideal candidate will have proven technical leadership, hands-on experience deploying complex hardware/software systems, and strong systems breadth across Linux, networking, and configuration management. | — | 1 |
| Technical Sourcer (Contract) Apptronik is a robotics company developing AI-powered robots. This role is for a Technical Sourcer (Contract) to support hiring needs for hardware and engineering roles, focusing on sourcing, screening, and coordinating the hiring process for complex positions in Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing, and R&D. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in full-cycle recruiting for technical roles and experience with the hardware product development lifecycle. | — | 1 |
| Corporate Tax Manager Seeking an experienced Corporate Tax Manager to build and lead the tax function from the ground up, establish tax policies and processes, manage federal and state income tax compliance, oversee indirect taxes, and handle tax accounting and reporting under ASC 740. This role will also support tax planning, R&D tax credit studies, and act as a liaison with external auditors. | — | 0 |
| Senior Electrical Engineer - Continuous Improvement Senior Electrical Engineer focused on continuous improvement for the Apollo humanoid robot platform, driving design, process, and performance enhancements across the electrical system, including PCBA design, debug, and development processes. Requires experience with product lifecycle management, CAD tools, PCB/PCBA prototyping, and electronics lab tools. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Hardware Connectivity Apptronik is seeking a Senior Manager of Hardware Connectivity to lead a team designing and implementing the communication systems for their humanoid robot, Apollo. This role involves managing engineers focused on signal integrity, internal networks, wireless data, and EMI/EMC, ensuring robust data transmission across the robot's complex hardware. | — | 0 |
| Manager of TA Operations, Programs & Reporting The Manager of Talent Acquisition, Operations, Programs & Reporting will drive operational excellence, program maturity, and reporting infrastructure for the Talent Acquisition team. This leader will operate as a hands-on builder, owning day-to-day operations, recruiting programs, and reporting/systems infrastructure while establishing processes for future team expansion. Responsibilities include managing interview logistics, establishing workflows, leading coordinators, designing and launching recruiting programs, building training, and maintaining recruiting metrics reporting and systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Service Materials & Infrastructure Apptronik is seeking a Senior Manager, Service Materials & Infrastructure to lead their global service and support inventory, demand planning, and internal supply chain. This role involves establishing inventory controls, systems integrity, and warehouse infrastructure for their AI-powered humanoid robots, with a focus on scaling operations and ensuring fleet uptime. The position requires strategic planning, data rigor, predictive forecasting, and leadership in a high-growth environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting Seeking an experienced Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting Senior Manager to establish and lead the technical accounting function, supporting the company's growth and IPO-readiness. This role requires expertise in U.S. GAAP, financial reporting, and partnering with various departments to provide accounting guidance on new initiatives and transactions. The position involves managing audit and public-company preparation efforts, developing accounting policies, and supporting close processes. | — | 0 |
| Staff Electrical Engineer - Dexterity Apptronik is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to drive electronics development for the end effectors of their Apollo humanoid robot. The role involves owning electronic systems from ideation through design, testing, and mass production, with a focus on robotic end effectors, prosthetics, and wearables. Responsibilities include architecture, design, simulation, implementation, testing, validation, root-cause analysis, lifecycle management, and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Firmware Engineer - Actuation Apptronik is seeking a Firmware Engineer to develop actuation and motor control firmware for humanoid robots. The role involves designing, implementing, optimizing, and testing brushless motor control firmware, real-time control loops, and embedded systems. Responsibilities include system identification, controller tuning, performance optimization, hardware bring-up, HIL/SIL testing, and ensuring firmware quality and reliability for production robots at scale. | — | 0 |
| Technical Inventory and Procurement Specialist Apptronik is seeking a Technical Procurement & Inventory Specialist for their robotics company. This senior-level hybrid role involves strategic procurement of technical equipment and advanced inventory management, including designing processes and mentoring junior staff. Responsibilities include end-to-end purchasing, vendor strategy, BOM management, risk mitigation, budget oversight, designing inventory systems, ERP leadership, RMA management, process standardization, and auditing. Requires negotiation skills, technical fluency, systems mastery (ERP/MRP), leadership, and problem-solving abilities. Experience in robotics or high-tech manufacturing is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Talent Acquisition Partner - Business & University Programs (Contract) Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots. This role is for a Talent Acquisition Partner focused on corporate functions and building a university relations program. The role involves sourcing, screening, and managing recruitment processes for G&A roles and interns, as well as managing applicant tracking systems and providing data-driven updates. | — | 0 |
| Senior Mechanical Engineer - Actuation (Dexterity) Apptronik is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer with expertise in actuation design for their human-centered robotics company, focusing on the development of their flagship humanoid robot, Apollo. The role involves leading the design, analysis, and testing of electric actuators and electromechanical systems, collaborating with a cross-disciplinary team, and ensuring designs are hardened for scalability and mass production. | — | 0 |
| Technical Sourcer (Contract) Seeking a Technical Sourcer to support hiring needs across software, hardware, and product teams for a human-centered robotics company. The role involves building talent pipelines, acting as the on-site talent acquisition representative for the Mountain View office, and partnering with local leadership and interview teams to coordinate interviews. | — | 0 |
| Machinist and CNC Operator Operates and supports CNC and conventional machining processes to produce precision components for AI-powered robots. Responsibilities include setting up machines, selecting tooling, operating CNC equipment, inspecting parts, and performing basic maintenance. | — | 0 |
| Hardware Integration Engineer - Dexterity Apptronik is seeking a Hardware Integration Engineer to develop and integrate robotic end-effectors (hands) for their humanoid robot, Apollo. This role involves mechanical kinematics, embedded electronics, and grasping software, focusing on bringing complex robotic hands from CAD to reality, integrating sensors, routing wire harnesses, and performing electro-mechanical bring-up. Responsibilities include hardware bring-up, diagnostics, system calibration, component testing, HIL testbed ownership, data analysis, and acting as a technical bridge between mechanical, electrical, and autonomy teams. | — | 0 |
| Staff Mechanical Engineer — R&D Apptronik is seeking a Staff Mechanical Engineer for their R&D team to lead rapid development of next-generation robotic systems, specifically focusing on turning novel mechanical concepts into working hardware quickly. The role involves full-cycle prototype development, in-house fabrication, mechanical experimentation, and collaboration with other engineering disciplines, with a focus on advanced robotics and embodied AI. | — | 0 |
| Staff Technical Program Manager Staff Technical Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs for a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered humanoid robots. The role involves setting strategic direction, driving alignment, shaping technical and operational frameworks for scaled production, mentoring other TPMs, and influencing org-wide priorities. Requires extensive experience in system-level product development, NPI, cross-disciplinary integration (including AI/ML teams), and program execution in resource-constrained environments. | — | 0 |
| Staff Electrical Engineer - RF/EMI/EMC Apptronik is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer specializing in RF/EMI/EMC and RF communication subsystems for their Apollo humanoid robot. The role involves owning the design, testing, and strategy for these electronic systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and optimizing RF performance. The engineer will also be involved in component selection, PCB design, prototyping, and lifecycle management of electronics, with a focus on bringing the robot to market at scale. | — | 0 |
| Staff Test Engineer - Actuation Apptronik is seeking a Staff Test Engineer - Actuation to own the design validation and NPI test process for their custom actuator systems. This role involves hands-on testing across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software domains, including test method development, automation, and root-cause analysis. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure actuator performance and readiness for production. | — | 0 |
| Staff Safety and Compliance Engineer Apptronik is seeking a Staff Electrical Safety Engineer to lead the electrical safety and compliance strategy for their Apollo humanoid robot. This role involves defining requirements, designing, testing, and ensuring compliance with various industry safety standards for electrical systems in robotics. The engineer will own the full lifecycle of electronics development and collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring the robot to market at scale. | — | 0 |
| Staff Mechanical Engineer - End Effector Structure Tech Lead Staff Mechanical Engineer to lead the structural design and architecture of a next-generation robotic hand for a humanoid platform, focusing on highly dexterous, human-like manipulation in unstructured environments. This role involves defining mechanical architecture, leading design of fingers and joints, engineering for contact-rich interaction, driving structural analysis, enabling compact integrated designs, leading prototyping, owning manufacturability, and collaborating cross-functionally. | — | 0 |
| Staff Mechanical Engineer – Upper Body Tech Lead Staff Mechanical Engineer to lead the design, integration, and verification of the upper body (torso, head, arms) of the Apollo humanoid robot. This role requires expertise in kinematics, complex mechanism design, high-density integration of compute, battery, and sensors, and translating industrial design into functional A-surfaces. The engineer will own the complete lifecycle of the upper body stack and mentor other engineers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Hardware Test Engineer - Actuation This role is for a Senior Hardware Test Engineer focused on the actuation systems of humanoid robots. The engineer will own the validation infrastructure for these systems, defining test strategies, developing automated test software, and ensuring product reliability and manufacturability. The role involves collaborating with various engineering teams, supporting the transition to high-volume manufacturing, and improving test processes. Experience with servo-driven actuators, motion systems, and EtherCAT networks is required. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Assembly Apptronik is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to lead the development, validation, and launch of robust manufacturing processes for their AI-powered humanoid robot, Apollo. This role focuses on ensuring products can be built at scale by defining equipment, tooling, and processes to meet quality, cost, and throughput targets, and championing DFx during early development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineer - Product Validation Apptronik is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead and execute their Product Validation roadmap and drive rigorous testing of their general-purpose robots, Apollo. This role involves developing V&V procedures, documenting results, ensuring compliance with industry standards, building test automation, and collaborating with third-party labs for safety and certification. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Engineer (Supply Chain) Apptronik is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for their Supply Chain organization to act as the technical authority on supplier manufacturing processes, quality systems, and production readiness for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblies. This role involves hands-on work on supplier factory floors, evaluating processes, resolving production issues, and qualifying new parts from prototype through rate production. The ideal candidate will have deep practical knowledge of electromechanical hardware manufacturing and inspection to inform sourcing decisions, drive supplier development, and ensure production readiness at external sites. | — | 0 |