apptronik
Staff Product Manager, Applied AI
At a Glance
- Location
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Compensation
- e. The annual salary range is $215,000 - $245,000 *This is a direct hire. Plea
- Posted
- 2026-07-29T15:41:00-04:00
Key Requirements
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Robotics
Requirements
7+ years of experience in product management
Strong understanding of modern robot learning techniques including imitation learning, reinforcement learning
Demonstrated experience integrating, adapting, or fine-tuning models
Strong familiarity with the constraints of running large neural networks on physical edge devices
At least 10 years of experience in product management or engineering, including 5+ years leading product managers, with a track record of shipping complex hardware products.
Experience using simulation tools to improve user experience.
Responsibilities
You will focus on driving the product vision, ensuring seamless execution across the complex hardware/software divide, and translating market demands into user oriented, executable product roadmaps.
Own and maintain the physical AI model roadmap: product vision, milestones, and release cycles for the core model stack
Drive the integration, adaptation, and fine-tuning of foundation models into Apollo's autonomy stack.
Sequence which capabilities graduate into the shipping model, balancing capability velocity against reliability and safety.
Translate customer use cases into model capability requirements and acceptance criteria
Partner with our data collection and evaluation team on benchmarks, real-world evaluation, and the success criteria that gate real-world deployment.