Senior Product Manager, Perception and Navigation

What the role actually is

Apptronik is hiring a senior product manager for perception and navigation on Apollo. The role owns roadmap, scope, sequencing, and field-readiness decisions across detection, tracking, localization, mapping, and obstacle avoidance.

This is a product role for a core autonomy layer. The work is about turning sensor data, customer needs, field failures, and safety constraints into concrete software priorities for a humanoid robot.

• Own the roadmap for Apollo's perception and navigation software
• Define evaluation metrics, field-test regimes, and release criteria
• Shape requirements for perception data collection, labeling, and deployment feedback loops
• Partner with sensing, compute, autonomy, UX, industrial design, and product marketing teams

• Product management experience with perception, navigation, autonomy, or similarly technical software
• Ability to translate customer and field insights into executable product requirements
• Comfort defining metrics for detection, tracking, localization, mapping, latency, and regression risk
• Practical judgment about safety, failure modes, validation coverage, and on-robot compute limits

Perception and navigation are where humanoid promises meet messy physical reality. This role is interesting because it asks a product manager to own not just features, but the release discipline that decides when robot understanding is good enough to trust in the field.