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

Description

  • Build, lead, and grow the Production Engineering team, including software support, site-reliability, and hardware-configuration engineers.
  • Own the engineering last mile by integrating subsystems into a working humanoid system and driving Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) completion.
  • Lead on-site deployment, bring-up, and commissioning for internal and external customers.
  • Establish standards, tooling, and on-call practices to maintain fleet reliability and uptime in field conditions.
  • Own centralized fleet deployment and rollout strategy, including canary, staged, and cascading releases.
  • Set technical direction for provisioning, configuration management, networking, and fleet tooling in partnership with the Architect.
  • Partner with Commercial, Service & Support, and the PMO to align deployment schedules, site requirements, and hand-offs.
  • Define repeatable processes such as sprint cadence, deployment playbooks, and FAT criteria to support scale.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of software or robotics engineering experience, or 4+ years of direct humanoid, manipulation, or teleoperation domain experience, including time in a lead or ownership role.
  • Demonstrated experience owning on-site deployment and commissioning of complex systems.
  • At least 2 years of formal managerial experience leading or mentoring engineers and driving cross-team execution.
  • Proven technical leadership in complex, cross-disciplinary systems.
  • Deep hands-on experience deploying, integrating, and commissioning complex hardware/software systems in the field, ideally robots.
  • Strong systems breadth across Linux, networking (DDS/UDP/TCP), provisioning and configuration management (Ansible), and software (C++/Python).
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills for senior leadership and customer-facing work.
  • Sound judgment under pressure at customer facilities against demanding timelines and SLAs.
  • Willingness to travel to deployment sites up to 25% during active deployments.
  • Bonus: direct humanoid, manipulation, or teleoperation domain experience.
  • Bonus: experience standing up a new team or function from scratch.
  • Bonus: experience with ROS 2, containerization/CI-CD, and fleet-management tooling.
  • Bonus: ML/MLOps field experience, including model fine-tuning, post-training pipelines, or dispatching training jobs.
  • Bonus: warehouse and industrial systems integration experience (WMS / WES / MES / WCS).
  • Bonus: cloud infrastructure and fleet backend services experience.
  • Bonus: deep back-end experience with TypeScript and Kubernetes.
  • Bonus: deep front-end experience with React, CSS, and interface design.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Grupo QuintoAndar | Staff Software Engineer | Salesforce

QuintoAndar 1K-5K Real Estate

Grupo QuintoAndar is hiring a Salesforce Engineer to develop and optimize core Salesforce process platforms supporting contract termination, sales operations, and the migration of critical services to Service Cloud.

AWS CI/CD Git Java JavaScript Kafka Kanban Microservices Node.js REST API Salesforce Salesforce Apex Salesforce Lightning Scrum
39 minutes ago

Tech Lead - Video Templates

Envato 251-1K Professional Services

Envato is seeking a technical leader to oversee Video Template Review operations, improving the quality, scalability, and efficiency of review workflows for motion graphics and video template assets.

After Effects
39 minutes ago

Engineering Manager, Collection

Vannevar Labs 11-50 Aerospace & Defense

Vannevar is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead its Targeted Collection Engineering team, building data collection and managed attribution capabilities that support publicly available information workflows for national security customers.

23 hours, 24 minutes ago

Engineering Manager, Experimentation

Slack 1K-5K Internet Software & Services

LaunchDarkly is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead its Experimentation team in building and operating the core experimentation product across setup, analysis, and results delivery.

Apache Airflow Databricks GCP Go Java Python Rust Snowflake
23 hours, 39 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers