Senior Product Manager, Sensing and Compute

What the role actually is

Apptronik is hiring a senior technical product manager for sensing and compute. The role sits at the hardware/software boundary, turning market demands and user needs into roadmaps for the perception and compute capabilities that support Apollo.

For a humanoid robot, sensing and compute are not invisible infrastructure. They decide what the robot can understand, how reliably it can operate, and where customer expectations meet technical reality.

• Define product direction for Apollo's sensing and compute capabilities
• Translate customer needs into user-oriented technical roadmaps
• Coordinate across hardware, software, AI, safety, and platform teams
• Prioritize capability tradeoffs that affect field performance and usability

• Technical product management experience for robotics, AI, hardware, or platform products
• Ability to bridge customer needs with sensing, compute, and software constraints
• Comfort working with highly technical engineering teams
• Strong roadmap judgment for complex systems with field-deployment pressure

Sensing and compute are where humanoid promises become operational limits. This role is interesting because it requires product judgment about capabilities that users may never name directly but will feel immediately when the robot succeeds or fails.