Apptronik
Engineering Manager - Controls
Austin, TX · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience in robot controls or robotics software (or 2+ years with a PhD), including 1+ year managing engineers and 2+ years as a technical lead.
- Education
- MS or PhD in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
About the job
Leads a team developing and delivering reliable real-time control software for humanoid robots, from simulation through hardware deployment and fleet releases.
What you'll do
- Oversee development of the real-time control framework, including robot drivers, state estimation, control interfaces, and learned-policy and teleoperation integration.
- Hire, manage, mentor, and set priorities for controls and software engineers while planning and tracking team deliverables.
- Maintain software quality and release stability through design and code reviews, automated testing, simulation and hardware validation, and support for robot bring-up and issue analysis.
What they ask for
- Strong foundation in robot kinematics, dynamics, and control, with hands-on experience in areas such as whole-body control, manipulation, or teleoperation.
- Experience building or leading real-time robotic software in C++, including multi-threaded execution, timing, and hardware interfaces.
- Track record taking control software from simulation to physical robots and supporting testing and deployment.
- Experience leading engineers and delivering software in a fast-moving R&D environment.
Nice to have
- Experience with humanoid, legged, or mobile manipulation platforms, state estimation, system identification, or learned-policy integration.
- Experience with MuJoCo, IsaacSim, or Drake; hardware-in-the-loop testing; continuous integration; or ROS 2.
Tools
C++, MuJoCo, IsaacSim, Drake, ROS 2
AI focus
Integrates learned policies, including reinforcement learning policies, into real-time robot control software.
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