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Staff Product Manager, Applied AI

Apptronik· Product
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Sunnyvale, CA$275k - $350kdirect hirePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Product leader responsible for vision and execution across hardware/software integration of AI models in Apollo, Apptronik’s autonomous robotic platform, with focus on safety, commercialization, and mass production.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the physical AI model roadmap: product vision, milestones, and release cycles for the core model stack
  • Drive the integration, adaptation, and fine-tuning of foundation models into Apollo's autonomy stack. Sequence which capabilities graduate into the shipping model, balancing capability velocity against reliability and safety.
  • Translate customer use cases into model capability requirements and acceptance criteria
  • Partner with data collection and evaluation team on benchmarks, real-world evaluation, and the success criteria that gate real-world deployment
  • Own the data strategy that feeds model development: define what to collect and why, the target tasks and behaviors, and the quality bar
  • Align data technology and operations teams on collection techniques, tooling, and quality expectations
  • Define and prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs
  • Ensure that product development efforts align with real-world economic value for customers
  • Synthesize insights from user research, customer meetings, usage data, and sales feedback into a strategy that delivers business objectives and customer benefits
  • 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

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in product management
  • Strong understanding of modern robot learning techniques including imitation learning, reinforcement learning
  • Demonstrated experience integrating, adapting, or fine-tuning models
  • Strong familiarity with the constraints of running large neural networks on physical edge devices
  • Strong analytical skills with experience in performance tracking and data-driven decision-making
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact
  • You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection
  • You prioritize user feedback, promoting and advocating for that voice to internal teams

Skills

Required:Product managementRobot learning techniquesModel integration and fine-tuningEdge device ML constraintsData strategyCommunication
Last updated Sep 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Apptronik

One Platform for the Future of Work

Apptronik designs humanoid robotics platforms with mobility, manipulation, and human-centered interaction to support people in the workplace.

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