Senior Product Manager, Robotics Perception & Navigation

The Robot Age; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a senior product manager to own the perception and navigation roadmap for Apollo. You will translate sensing and localization needs into clear product priorities and release criteria, guiding autonomy-focused decisions across teams.

The role sits at the intersection of robotics, AI, and hardware, driving measurable outcomes in field validation and safety while collaborating with sensing, compute, and go-to-market groups.

Qualifications

• Experience in product management for robotics, autonomy, AI, or hardware-software systems.
• Ability to reason about robot safety, field validation, and release gates.
• Translating autonomy constraints into customer-facing tradeoffs.
• Cross-functional leadership with engineering, data, operations, and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Set feature priorities for perception, localization, mapping, tracking, and obstacle avoidance.
• Define field-test and evaluation metrics for robot perception and navigation releases.
• Turn customer and deployment needs into product requirements for autonomy teams.
• Partner across sensing, compute, AI, hardware, and go-to-market teams.

Skills

Robotics PM

Autonomy systems

Cross-functional leadership

Safety-focused

Job description

Apptronik in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a senior product manager to own the perception and navigation roadmap for Apollo. You will translate sensing and localization needs into clear product priorities and release criteria, guiding autonomy-focused decisions across teams.

The role sits at the intersection of robotics, AI, and hardware, driving measurable outcomes in field validation and safety while collaborating with sensing, compute, and go-to-market groups.