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Senior Autonomy Software Engineer

2 hours, 10 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Robotics Engineer
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
C++ CI/CD Linux Python Reinforcement Learning
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Apptronik

Apptronik

Apptronik develops versatile humanoid robots to tackle tasks humans prefer not to do, aiming to reshape existence and enhance universal quality of life.

Aerospace & Defense
51-250
Founded 2015
$23M raised
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Description

  • Design and implement mission-level autonomy systems for humanoid robots using learning-based decision making and behavior execution.
  • Develop policy execution, monitoring, and coordination layers that integrate learning-based components with classical robot subsystems.
  • Build autonomy frameworks that support adaptive behavior, task generalization, and robustness to uncertainty and environmental variation.
  • Implement recovery, fallback, and safety mechanisms to support reliable real-world operation.
  • Define and maintain interfaces between autonomy, perception, navigation, manipulation, and control systems.
  • Collaborate with Reinforcement Learning teams to integrate trained policies into real-time robot software stacks.
  • Develop telemetry, logging, evaluation, and replay infrastructure to debug autonomy behavior.
  • Validate autonomy systems in simulation and on physical humanoid robots.
  • Contribute to autonomy architecture, code quality, CI/CD pipelines, and long-term maintainability.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership within the autonomy organization.

Requirements

  • MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • 2+ years of experience developing robot autonomy or learning-based robotic systems.
  • Strong proficiency in modern C++ and working knowledge of Python in Linux environments.
  • Experience integrating learning-based policies such as reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or foundation-model-based policies into real robot systems.
  • Solid understanding of robotics systems, including state representation and estimation interfaces, interactions between autonomy/perception/navigation/control, and real-time or distributed software systems.
  • Experience deploying autonomy software on physical robots and debugging or tuning under real-world constraints.
  • Familiarity with ROS 2, message-passing architectures, and modular robot software design.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, CI/CD, code reviews, documentation, and system reliability.
  • Experience with humanoid robots, mobile manipulators, or legged robotic systems (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience with reinforcement learning or learning-based control for robotics (preferred).
  • Familiarity with foundation models for robotics, including vision-language-action models and multimodal policies (preferred).
  • Experience designing safe wrappers, monitors, or supervisors around learning-based systems (preferred).
  • Contributions to open-source robotics, autonomy, or ML infrastructure (preferred).
  • Experience working in fast-paced robotics startups or deploying systems into production (preferred).

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $190,000 to $235,000.
  • Direct-hire employment opportunity.
  • Equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination protections.

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