Engineering Manager Hardware Integration

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to lead Hardware Integration at Apptronik. You will be at the forefront of bringing our humanoid robot platform to life ensuring every physical subsystem—from high-performance actuators to complex sensor suites—is meticulously integrated into a cohesive functional system. This is a critical leadership role for an engineer who excels at bridging the gap between individual component design and a fully realized top-level robotic platform.

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a specialized team of engineers and technicians focused on the physical integration and assembly of complex humanoid robotic systems.
• Hardware Bring-Up: Direct prototype hardware integration guiding the team through physical assembly initial power-on and the transition of new hardware designs from the bench to the platform.
• Wiring & Interconnect Architecture: Own all aspects of Wiring and Harness Design and Integration ensuring robust manufacturable and reliable power and data distribution across the entire platform.
• Kinematic & Dynamic Calibration: Develop and release calibration schemes to ensure the robot's physical assembly is precisely aligned with its digital and control models.
• Design for Integration (DfI): Collaborate with mechanical and electrical design teams to ensure sub-assemblies are optimized for modularity ease of integration and long-term reliability.
• Lead HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) Testbed Development: Design and build hardware in the loop testbed to enable rapid iteration cycle and facilitate integration and bring up tasks as well as future testing activities.
• Configuration Management: Serve as the primary owner for hardware configuration including revision control and the creation/maintenance of accurate Top-Level System Bills of Materials (BoM) for the robot and auxiliary equipment.

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience: 6+ years of hands-on hardware engineering experience specifically focused on complex robotics systems
• Leadership: 2+ years in a direct management or technical lead role with a proven track record of mentoring multi-disciplinary teams.
• Harness Expertise: Deep hands-on expertise in the design routing and manufacturing of high-density wiring and cable harnesses.
• Configuration Mastery: Direct experience managing complex BoMs and hardware versioning within a fast-paced R&D or production environment.
• Systems Thinking: Strong ability to troubleshoot interface issues between mechanical electrical and firmware layers during the integration phase.
• Communication: Exceptional leadership and problem-solving skills with the ability to coordinate across diverse engineering departments.

What We Do

Apptronik is building robots for the real world to improve human quality of life and to help solve the ever-increasing labor shortage problem. Our team has been building some of the most advanced robots on the planet for years dating back to the DARPA Robotics Challenge. We apply our expertise across the full robotics stack to some of the most important and impactful problems our society faces and expect our products and technology to change the world for the better. We value passion creativity and collaboration to help us overcome existing technological barriers in the industry to create truly innovative products.

Why Work With Us

At Apptronik we don't see a future where man competes against machine. Instead we envision a harmonious world where man and machine coexist. Our mission statement "It is not Man vs. Machine but Man + Machine" encapsulates our belief that the synergy between humans and robots will pave the way for a brighter more advanced future.

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