Lead Product Manager, Perception & Navigation (Robotics)

Apptronik; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik seeks a senior Product Manager for perception and navigation software, driving roadmaps that bridge hardware and software across perception and autonomy. You will translate market needs into executable product planning, working with engineering, design, and field teams to deliver real-world robotics capabilities.

You will define evaluation metrics, manage field deployments, and ensure safe, scalable autonomy, while capturing customer feedback to maximize business impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in perception and navigation with robotics.
• Experience defining metrics, field tests, and tracking for autonomy.
• Field deployment experience taking perception software from lab to real world.
• Practical safety judgment around failure modes and autonomy risks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication to convey technical insights.

Responsibilities

• Own perception and navigation software roadmap spanning detection, tracking, localization, mapping and obstacle avoidance.
• Define metrics and field-testing regimes, and gate releases based on performance.
• Own data pipelines for perception data collection, labeling and feedback from deployments.
• Lead product requirements for safe perception and autonomy risk.
• Collaborate with sensing and compute teams to fit within compute constraints.
• Define features and communicate requirements to engineering; support marketing and partnerships.

Skills

Perception and navigation

Autonomy software

Field deployment

Safety judgment

Communication skills

Decision making under uncertainty

User feedback advocacy

Education

7+ years experience

Experience with autonomous robots

Perception evaluation frameworks

Data analysis for field tests

Tools

ROS

Simulation data generation

Field-testing pipelines

Job description

Apptronik seeks a senior Product Manager for perception and navigation software, driving roadmaps that bridge hardware and software across perception and autonomy. You will translate market needs into executable product planning, working with engineering, design, and field teams to deliver real-world robotics capabilities.

You will define evaluation metrics, manage field deployments, and ensure safe, scalable autonomy, while capturing customer feedback to maximize business impact.