Senior Product Manager, Perception and Navigation

📋 Description

• Own perception and navigation roadmap across detection, tracking, localization, mapping, obstacle
• Define perception stack requirements; translate sensor inputs into scene understanding and world
• Set evaluation metrics and field-testing regimes for perception and navigation (accuracy, latency
• Own data pipelines requirements: collection, labeling, feedback from field deployments.
• Lead safe perception: reason through failure modes, validation, autonomy risk.
• Co-design with compute, sensing teams for edge deployment, latency, and on-robot perf.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product management.
• Strong experience in perception and navigation: detection, tracking, localization, mapping
• Defined evaluation metrics, field-testing regimes, and performance tracking for autonomy/perception.
• Field deployment experience bringing perception/autonomy software to real-world operation.
• Practical safety judgment around failure modes, validation coverage, and autonomy risks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication translating tech insights to business impact.

🎁 Benefits

• *This is a direct hire.*
• Apptronik is an equal opportunity employer; supports diverse applicants.