Senior Systems Engineer, Robotic Chassis & Integration

Apptronik; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to drive the integration, development, and lifecycle of our next-generation humanoid robot chassis. You will shape system requirements and collaborate across mechanical, electrical, and control teams to ensure performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

This high‑impact role spans concept to deployment, demanding hands‑on experience in robotics systems design, verification, and validation of electro‑mechanical subsystems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain system level requirements and specifications for the robot chassis and structural subsystems.
• Contribute to and implement system architecture for the humanoid chassis.
• Collaborate on interface definitions between chassis and structural hardware and higher level actuation, power, compute, and control systems.
• Perform trade studies across structural performance, weight, cost, manufacturability, and reliability.
• Drive system integration efforts across mechanical structure, power distribution, wiring and harness, and thermal subsystems.
• Develop verification and validation (V&V) plans and test protocols, including structural load testing, fatigue and life testing, thermal characterization, and vibration and shock testing.
• Establish and track performance benchmarks such as structural stiffness and strength margins, mass properties, thermal limits, ingress

Job description

Apptronik is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to drive the integration, development, and lifecycle of our next-generation humanoid robot chassis. You will shape system requirements and collaborate across mechanical, electrical, and control teams to ensure performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

This high‑impact role spans concept to deployment, demanding hands‑on experience in robotics systems design, verification, and validation of electro‑mechanical subsystems.