Principal Robotics Machine Learning Engineer
Apptronik · Austin, TX · HQ
CHECKED 14H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build learned manipulation for humanoid robot Apollo at production scale.
- Drive open-world object manipulation from sim prototyping to hardware.
- Advance AI-powered humanoids for manufacturing, logistics and beyond.
Ideal candidate
Hands-on robotics leader with deep manipulation experience who thrives at startup pace, bridges research and production, and mentors others while owning end-to-end delivery on physical hardware.
Requirements
- 5+ years shipping ML models on robotic systems in production environments
- Expertise in CNNs, transformers and ML model development
- Proficiency in Python, C++, PyTorch and real-time robotic software stacks
- Experience with data collection, annotation and synthetic data generation
- Familiarity with 6D pose estimation, camera calibration, point clouds and visual servoing
- Experience calibrating and tuning high-DOF robotic manipulators
- BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field with 7+ years manipulation experience (5+ with PhD)
Lab profile
About Apptronik
Human-centered robotics company building AI-powered humanoid robot Apollo for manufacturing, logistics, and beyond.
What they build
- Apollo humanoid robot
Known for
- Applied AI
- Full-stack humanoid robotics
- Human-robot interaction
- Humanoid controls