Apptronik · 4 hours ago
Senior Autonomy Software Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
2+ years expApptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Autonomy team, you will design and deploy learning-driven autonomy systems for humanoid robots, enabling them to operate robustly in real-world environments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Industrial AutomationMachinery ManufacturingRobotics
Responsibilities
Design and implement mission-level autonomy systems for humanoid robots, focusing on learning-based decision making and behavior execution
Develop policy execution, monitoring, and coordination layers that integrate learning-based components with classical robot subsystems
Build autonomy frameworks that support adaptive behavior, generalization across tasks, and robustness to uncertainty and environmental variation
Implement recovery, fallback, and safety mechanisms around learning-based autonomy to ensure reliable real-world operation
Define and maintain clean interfaces between autonomy, perception, navigation, manipulation, and control systems
Collaborate with Reinforcement Learning teams to integrate trained policies into real-time robot software stacks
Develop infrastructure for telemetry, logging, evaluation, and replay to understand and debug autonomy behavior
Validate autonomy systems in simulation and on physical humanoid robots, closing the loop from research to deployment
Contribute to autonomy architecture, code quality, CI/CD pipelines, and long-term maintainability
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership within the autonomy organization
Qualification
Required
MS, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
2+ years of experience developing robot autonomy or learning-based robotic systems
Strong proficiency in modern C++ and working knowledge of Python in Linux environments
Experience integrating learning-based policies (e.g., reinforcement learning, imitation learning, foundation-model-based policies) into real robot systems
Solid understanding of robotics systems, including:
State representation and estimation interfaces
Interaction between autonomy, perception, navigation, and control
Real-time and distributed software systems
Experience deploying autonomy software on physical robots, including debugging and tuning under real-world constraints
Familiarity with ROS 2, message-passing architectures, and modular robot software design
Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing, CI/CD, code reviews, documentation, and system reliability
Preferred
Experience with humanoid robots, mobile manipulators, or legged robotic systems
Hands-on experience with reinforcement learning or learning-based control for robotics
Familiarity with foundation models for robotics (e.g., vision-language-action models, multimodal policies)
Experience designing safe wrappers, monitors, or supervisors around learning-based systems
Contributions to open-source robotics, autonomy, or ML infrastructure
Experience working in fast-paced robotics startups or deploying systems into production
Company
Apptronik
Apptronik is a robotics company that designs and builds human-centered robotics systems.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$762.79MKey Investors
Humanoid GlobalTerex
2025-11-25Series B· $331M
2025-10-02Corporate Round· $0.06M
2025-02-13Series A· $403M
Leadership Team
Jeffrey Cardenas
CEO
Nicholas Paine
CTO
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