Senior Staff Software Engineer - Deployment & Interaction

Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life. Our flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate thoughtfully with people, starting with critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond. We operate at the cutting edge of embodied AI, applying our expertise across the full robotics stack to solve some of society's most important problems. You will join a team dedicated to bringing Apollo to market at scale, tackling the complex challenges like safety, commercialization, and mass production to change the world for the better.

JOB SUMMARY

Apptronik is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to define the architecture for how our humanoid robots are deployed, integrated, and interacted with in the real world. This role establishes a new technical pillar focused on the last mile of customer engagement: turning Apollo from a platform capability into a fielded, demonstrable, and intuitively operable system at customer sites. The engineer will set the architectural direction for both deployment infrastructure and human-robot interaction (HRI) — designing the interfaces, tools, and workflows that customers, operators, and field engineers use to bring our robots online and put them to work. Initially reporting to the VP of Software Engineering, this leader will partner closely with Infrastructure Software, Platform Software, Hardware, Autonomy, Commercial and Product to translate platform capability into deployed customer outcomes, and will provide technical leadership to the Application Engineers and Software Support Engineers executing field delivery and customer-facing integration. This is an individual contributor role focused on technical architecture, mentorship, and field engineering judgment; people management of the supporting team will be held by engineering management.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Technical Architecture & Vision: Define the end-to-end architecture for Apptronik's deployment and interaction software stack — the systems, interfaces, and tooling that take Apollo from the lab to a working installation at a customer site. Establish a technical north star that mirrors the rigor of our core platform architecture while serving the distinct needs of field, demo, and customer-facing engineering.
• Human-Robot Interaction Design: Lead the architectural strategy for how humans interact with our robots — from operator interfaces and supervisory control to natural and intuitive end-user interactions. Drive design choices that make complex robotic capabilities legible, controllable, and trustworthy to non-expert users.
• Customer Site Integration: Own the technical strategy for last-mile delivery and integration at customer environments — spanning on-site infrastructure (compute, networking, hardware monitoring) and p