Senior Product Manager, Perception & Navigation (Robotics)

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

Job summary

Apptronik in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Perception and Navigation to drive the roadmap across perception, localization, mapping, and obstacle avoidance. You will translate market needs into executable product plans and collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure viable, safe, and scalable autonomy.

The role emphasizes field deployment, safety, and cross-functional leadership, with a focus on delivering real-world value for industrial robotics and logistics

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in robotics or autonomy.
• Experience in perception, navigation, and autonomy software.
• Experience deploying perception software from lab to field.
• Practical safety judgment around failure modes and risks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication translating tech to business.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the perception and navigation software roadmap.
• Define evaluation metrics and field-testing regimes for perception.
• Lead requirements for perception data pipelines and sensing compute.
• Co-design within edge compute constraints and latency budgets.
• Define use cases based on business impact and customer needs.
• Sync requirements with engineering, UX, and marketing teams.

Skills

Product management

Perception & navigation

Metrics & evaluation

Field deployment

Safety & risk management

Technical communication

Decision making under uncertainty

User feedback advocacy

Job description

Apptronik in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Perception and Navigation to drive the roadmap across perception, localization, mapping, and obstacle avoidance. You will translate market needs into executable product plans and collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure viable, safe, and scalable autonomy.

The role emphasizes field deployment, safety, and cross-functional leadership, with a focus on delivering real-world value for industrial robotics and logistics