Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering – Compute & Sensing Lead

Apptronik, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik, Inc. in Austin seeks a Senior Manager of Electrical Engineering to lead the team responsible for the compute and sensing backbone of our humanoid robots.

You will recruit and mentor engineers, own the hardware roadmap, and oversee high-speed PCB design, sensor interfaces, and carrier boards for NVIDIA Jetson SoMs. This role blends deep hands-on technical work with strategic leadership to scale hardware across manufacturing and mass production.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer or Electrical Engineering required.
• 10+ years in Electrical Engineering with focus on high-speed digital design.
• 3+ years in formal leadership or people management.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire, and retain top-tier electrical engineers specializing in high-speed digital design, signal integrity, and embedded systems.
• Provide deep technical guidance during design reviews, ensuring best practices for PCB layout, thermal management, and EMI/EMC compliance.
• Collaborate with Software and Perception leads to define the hardware roadmap for next-generation compute architecture.
• Lead development of custom, ruggedized carrier boards for high-performance SoMs (NVIDIA), optimized for power and space constraints.
• Oversee the implementation and validation of high-speed data protocols.
• Define the power architecture for the compute cluster, ensuring stable delivery under high-transient loads.
• Direct the electrical integration of diverse sensors modalities.
• Optimize the electrical interface and synchronization of sensors for low-latency data in the autonomy stack.
• Ensure robust data transmission across complex robot harnesses, mitigating noise and interference in a high-power environment.

Skills

NVIDIA Jetson

High-speed PCB

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Leadership

Sensor interfaces

GMSL2

FPD-Link III

Ethernet

CAN-FD

Education

B.S in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering

10+ years in Electrical Engineering

3+ years leadership

Job description

Apptronik, Inc. in Austin seeks a Senior Manager of Electrical Engineering to lead the team responsible for the compute and sensing backbone of our humanoid robots.

You will recruit and mentor engineers, own the hardware roadmap, and oversee high-speed PCB design, sensor interfaces, and carrier boards for NVIDIA Jetson SoMs. This role blends deep hands-on technical work with strategic leadership to scale hardware across manufacturing and mass production.