Head of Software Product for Autonomous Robotics

The Robot Age; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik in Mountain View is seeking a software product leader for its Apollo humanoid platform. You will own product management across on-robot and off-robot software, including autonomy, simulation, platform software, cloud tools, and fleet management.

This head-of-product role will build the PM team, set roadmap discipline, connect customer needs to engineering and research work, and keep software decisions tied to deployment and field operation.

Qualifications

• Experience building and leading product management teams.
• Software product fluency from research through deployment and field operation.
• Background with autonomous robots or similarly complex software systems.
• Working understanding of autonomy, AI, perception, navigation, simulation, platforms, middleware, and edge deployment.
• Experience with cloud software products and cloud-to-edge fleet architectures.
• Ability to translate technical tradeoffs into business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the software product management team.
• Own the software product vision and roadmap across autonomy, simulation, platforms, and cloud tools.
• Define commercial software strategy, including packaging, pricing enablement, and recurring-revenue features.
• Partner with UX leadership on fleet management tools for enterprise operators.
• Set evaluation, field-testing, and release-readiness criteria for deployed software.
• Align data collection strategy with machine learning and AI teams.

Skills

PM leadership

Autonomy software

AI/ML familiarity

Cloud platforms

Fleet architectures

Executive communication

Tools

Middleware

Job description

Apptronik in Mountain View is seeking a software product leader for its Apollo humanoid platform. You will own product management across on-robot and off-robot software, including autonomy, simulation, platform software, cloud tools, and fleet management.

This head-of-product role will build the PM team, set roadmap discipline, connect customer needs to engineering and research work, and keep software decisions tied to deployment and field operation.