Apptronik
Product Manager, Perception and Navigation
Austin, TX
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About the role
- You will focus on driving the product vision, ensuring seamless execution across the complex hardware/software divide, and translating market demands into user oriented, executable product roadmaps.
- ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Define evaluation metrics and field-testing regimes for perception and navigation: detection, tracking, localization, and mapping accuracy, latency budgets, and the success and regression criteria that gate releases.
Responsibilities
- Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life.
- Drive the technical definition of the perception stack, turning sensor inputs into the scene understanding and world state that the autonomy and model layers rely on.
- Own the requirements for perception data pipelines including collection, labeling, and the feedback loop from field deployments.
- Work with industrial design, user experience, and engineering teams to conceptualize and implement interactive features.
- Define product features/enhancements and communicate requirements to engineering teams via clearly written requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.
- Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of our products.
- Own and maintain the perception and navigation software roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities across detection, tracking, localization, mapping, and obstacle avoidance.
- Co-design within the compute envelope: account for edge deployment constraints, latency, and on-robot performance, partnering closely with the sensing and compute team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
- Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles.
- Experience with perception or autonomy evaluation frameworks and large-scale field-test data analysis.
Skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact.
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.
- Synthesize insights from user research, customer meetings, usage data, and sales feedback into a strategy that delivers business objectives and customer benefits.
Company info
- Ensure that product development efforts align with real-world economic value for customers.
- Experience working with customers in light and heavy duty industrial environments.
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