Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Perception & Navigation

Booster; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the perception and navigation roadmap for our autonomous robotics stack, translating market needs into executable plans that span hardware and software interfaces.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, and field teams to define success criteria, evaluate performance, and ensure products deliver real-world value while balancing safety and efficiency in deployment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in robotics or autonomous systems.
• Experience with autonomous robots or perception evaluation frameworks.
• Experience deploying perception software to real-world operations.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the perception and navigation software roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities across detection, tracking, localization, mapping, and obstacle avoidance.
• Define evaluation metrics and field-testing regimes for perception and navigation: detection, tracking, localization, and mapping accuracy, latency budgets, and the success and regression criteria that gate releases.
• Own the requirements for perception data pipelines including collection, labeling, and the feedback loop from field deployments.
• Lead product requirements for safe perception: reason through failure modes, validation coverage, and autonomy risk.
• Co-design within the compute envelope: account for edge deployment constraints, latency, and on-robot performance, partnering closely with the sensing and compute team.
• 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.

Skills

Perception & Navigation

Field Deployment

Metrics & Evaluation

Communication to Business

Education

7+ years of product management experience

Job description

Apptronik in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the perception and navigation roadmap for our autonomous robotics stack, translating market needs into executable plans that span hardware and software interfaces.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, and field teams to define success criteria, evaluate performance, and ensure products deliver real-world value while balancing safety and efficiency in deployment.