Apptronik
Technical Lead Manager - Production Engineering
Onsite - Austin, TX
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About the role
- Deployment Delivery: Champion on-site deployment, bring-up, and commissioning for internal and external customers.
- Reliability & Uptime: Establish the standards, tooling, and on-call practices that keep a growing fleet running under real-world field conditions.
- Technical Direction: Set technical direction for provisioning, configuration management, networking, and fleet tooling, making architecture and prioritization calls in partnership with the org's Architect.
Responsibilities
- Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life.
- Build, lead, and grow the Production Engineering team - software support, site-reliability, and hardware-configuration engineers - setting priorities, mentoring, and owning execution and quality.
- Own the engineering last mile end to end - integrating subsystems into a working humanoid and driving it to acceptance under Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) at Robot Park and customer sites.
- Own centralized deployment and rollout across the fleet - canary, staged, and cascading - and the observability and monitoring that make rollout a decision, not a guess.
Requirements
- Proven technical leadership - leading engineers and owning delivery of complex, cross-disciplinary systems.
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
Nice to have
- Direct humanoid, manipulation, or teleoperation domain experience.
- Experience standing up a new team or function from scratch.
- Experience with ROS 2, containerization/CI-CD, and fleet-management tooling.
- ML / MLOps in the field - model fine-tuning, post-training pipelines, or dispatching training jobs (VLA / embodied-AI workflows).
- Warehouse and industrial systems integration (WMS / WES / MES / WCS).
- Cloud infrastructure and fleet backend services.
- Deep back-end experience - TypeScript and Kubernetes.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
- 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.
Company info
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to represent the team to senior leadership and customers.
- Champion on-site deployment, bring-up, and commissioning for internal and external customers.
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