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Senior Systems Engineer - Chassis

Apptronik· Systems & Validation
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Austin, TXfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Systems Engineer to drive integration, development, and lifecycle of the next-generation humanoid robot chassis, spanning structural, mechanical, power, thermal, and controls integration for Apollo at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain system level requirements and specifications for the robot chassis and structural subsystems.
  • Contribute to and implement system architecture for the humanoid chassis.
  • Collaborate on interface definitions between chassis and structural hardware and higher level actuation, power, compute, and control systems.
  • Perform trade studies across structural performance, weight, cost, manufacturability, and reliability.
  • Drive system integration efforts across mechanical structure, power distribution, wiring and harness, and thermal subsystems.
  • Develop verification and validation (V&V) plans and test protocols, including structural load testing, fatigue and life testing, thermal characterization, and vibration and shock testing.
  • Establish and track performance benchmarks such as structural stiffness and strength margins, mass properties, thermal limits, ingress protection, and service life or cycle counts.
  • Partner with mechanical, electrical, controls, AI, manufacturing, and supply chain teams.
  • Support systems requirement definition and integration across structure, power management, electrical architecture, sensing, compute mounting, and cable routing.
  • Design for structural integrity, fault tolerance, serviceability, and reliability in a production environment.
  • Coordinate prototype builds, structural design reviews, and DFM and DFA reviews.
  • Support supplier selection and qualification for structural components, fasteners, castings and machined parts, and precision hardware.
  • Support compliance, safety standards, and field deployment readiness.
  • Design and support real time monitoring, structural health data logging, and remote diagnostic capabilities.
  • Drive and support root cause failure analysis, including structural failures, fastener and joint failures, and wear, and corrective action to enhance uptime and performance.

Qualifications

  • Strong experience designing and integrating complex structural, mechanical, and electrical systems for real time, dynamic robotics applications.
  • Strong understanding of structural mechanics (FEA, stress and fatigue analysis), materials selection (metals, composites, additive manufacturing), GD&T, and DFM and DFA for production hardware.
  • Experience with actuator, gearbox, and drivetrain integration into a structural chassis, including mounting, load transfer, and alignment and tolerancing.
  • Excellent cross functional communication skills.
  • Experience with wiring harness design and routing, cable management, and EMI and thermal considerations within a dense electromechanical chassis.
  • Experience bringing robotic and mechatronic hardware from prototype to production, including tolerance stack up and manufacturing process selection.
  • Experience leveraging industrial design and safety standards for robotic requirement generation, design, system integration, and test
  • Solid grasp of robotics architecture patterns, kinematics, dynamics, and mass and inertia budgeting for legged and wheeled mobile platforms.
  • Background in systems engineering and reliability engineering, including logging, telemetry, structural health monitoring, and automated test frameworks.
  • Knowledge of environmental sealing and ingress protection, vibration and shock qualification, and thermal management for embedded electronics within a structural enclosure.
  • Familiarity with requirements management and traceability tools and model-based systems engineering practices.
  • Collaborative, communicative, and motivated by working within a tight knit team of expert engineers.
  • Adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity in an R&D focused environment.

Skills

Required:System-level requirements definitionSystem architecture and integrationStructural mechanics and analysisDFM and DFA for production hardwareWiring harness design and routingActuator/gearbox integration

Benefits

  • Direct hire
  • Equal employment opportunities
  • Harassment-free workplace
  • Competitive compensation (implied)
Last updated Sep 13, 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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