Senior Staff Systems Engineer

Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life. Our flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate thoughtfully with people, starting with critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond.

We operate at the cutting edge of embodied AI, applying our expertise across the full robotics stack to solve some of society's most important problems. You will join a team dedicated to bringing Apollo to market at scale, tackling the complex challenges like safety, commercialization, and mass production to change the world for the better.

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking an experienced Senior Staff Systems Engineer to lead and execute our Systems Engineering roadmap for our next generation product. This is a unique opportunity to have a large impact at a high growth start-up. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, with a successful track record of leading engineering design verification and product validation of electro-mechanical products, we’d love to speak with you. This position requires deep experience in robotics systems design, scaling complex systems, and the ability to balance technical vision with pragmatic execution.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Architect and evolve Apptronik robot hardware platforms, driving reliability, modularity, scalability, and maintainability.

• Lead Systems requirement definition and integration across all hardware, sensing, compute, power management and distribution, EE architecture, capabilities, and operator interfaces.

• Lead systems trade-offs to drive clear design requirements for Apptronik’s general purpose robots during product development.

• Design for real-time performance, fault tolerance, and reliability in a production environment

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship and guidance across the engineering teams.

• Collaborate with design and operation teams to ensure seamless robot operations and fleet-level orchestration.

• Design and develop requirements for real-time monitoring, data logging and remote diagnostics for production scale robot fleets

• Drive and support root cause failure analysis and fault recovery mechanism to enhance uptime and performance

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Deep experience in designing and scaling complex hardware systems for real-time robotics applications

• Proven leadership in shipping production grade robotics platforms in manufacturing, logistics, autonomous systems or related domains.

• Strong grasp of robotics architecture patterns, perception, sensing, actuation, kinematics and dynamics.

• Strong background in systems architecture, human machine interface design and experience with reliability engineering, including logging, telemetry, debugging, and automated test frameworks.

• Hands-on experience scaling robot fleets in industrial or warehouse environments

• Systems level thought leader who thrives on solving cross-disciplinary problems

• Collaborative, communicated and motivated by leading a tight knit team of expert engineers

• Adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity in an R&D focused environment

• Demonstrated in-depth expertise in engineering design verification and validation.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in engineering. Master’s and / or PhD degree in engineering preferred.

• 10+ years in systems and/or software engineering with at least 5+ in complex robotics systems or autonomous systems

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.

• Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen.

• Hearing and speech to communicate.

Perks:

• Competitive salary w/ benefits

• Highly motivating equity incentive package

• Flexible work hours policy

• Professional development opportunities

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)

• 401k plan

*This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations.

Apptronik provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.