Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Austin, TX

Owns compensation, equity, benefits, compliance, and total rewards strategy for a high-growth robotics company. Leads job architecture, salary structures, compensation cycles, market benchmarking, equity programs, benefits renewals, leave administration, pay equity analysis, dashboards, and governance. Partners with Finance, Legal, People Partners, Talent Acquisition, managers, executives, and the board to support competitive, compliant, and data-informed rewards programs.

Lead the end-to-end architecture and implementation of Apollo humanoid robot’s compute and sensing hardware. Design NVIDIA Jetson carrier boards, high-speed interfaces, power and thermal systems, sensor integration, synchronization pipelines, diagnostics, redundancy, and functional-safety mechanisms. Drive manufacturability, reliability, roadmap development, technical reviews, and mentorship of electrical and embedded engineers.

Develop and deploy actuator models and low-level controls for humanoid robots. Responsibilities include motor and actuator modeling, torque and current control, system identification, hardware characterization, controller tuning, sim-to-real validation, experiment automation, simulator integration, and hardware bring-up. The role requires strong C++ and Python skills, motor electromechanics expertise, classical control knowledge, and hands-on experience with real robotic hardware.

Develop and deploy machine learning systems for humanoid robot manipulation, covering data collection, annotation, synthetic data generation, model training, simulation, hardware deployment, and fine-tuning. Diagnose vision, calibration, sensor fusion, model, and data bottlenecks to improve reliability. Build real-time robotic software using modern computer vision and deep learning, while mentoring engineers and driving architectural excellence across the robotics organization.

Leads system-level architecture, integration, verification, and lifecycle development for a humanoid robot chassis. Responsibilities include defining requirements, integrating mechanical, electrical, power, thermal, wiring, and controls subsystems, conducting trade studies and testing, supporting prototype-to-production development, qualifying suppliers, and driving reliability, safety, manufacturability, diagnostics, and failure analysis.

Own the architecture and technical direction of a cloud-native core simulation platform supporting reinforcement learning, controls validation, and CI/CD testing. Design distributed systems and high-throughput pipelines capable of generating millions of experience hours daily. Define platform abstractions, APIs, performance and reliability standards, and the product roadmap. Partner with Controls, AI Research, and Perception teams, resolve systemic bottlenecks, review designs, and mentor senior engineers.

Leads Apptronik’s global product education and technical learning strategy for robotics employees, partners, and customers. Builds scalable LMS, LXP, certification, competency, documentation, and simulation ecosystems; aligns training with product launches and field deployment readiness; manages budgets, metrics, commercialization, and P&L impact; and recruits and develops multidisciplinary teams. Partners with Product, Engineering, Commercial, and Global Services teams to improve product adoption, support deflection, customer confidence, and human-robot operational literacy.

Build production ML infrastructure for humanoid robotics, including multimodal data curation, annotation, versioning, large-scale pipelines, simulation and evaluation harnesses, model registries, deployment promotion, experiment tracking, and developer tooling. Partner with autonomy, data platform, and teleoperation teams on lifecycle contracts and technical direction while mentoring engineers through code and design reviews.

Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of service inventory, including warehouse organization, demand forecasting, receiving, cycle counts, asset serialization, stock replenishment, and regional order fulfillment. Coordinate with service teams, dock operations, carriers, and regional hubs to maintain inventory accuracy, prevent stockouts, and ship parts efficiently. The role is on-site in Austin and requires process improvement, ERP expertise, physical warehouse work, and the ability to lift up to 30 pounds.

Own uptime for NPI and development humanoid robots: triage, diagnose, repair ambiguous electromechanical failures; document root causes and repair data; feed actionable insights into engineering; participate in Design for Serviceability, validate service procedures, and ensure tooling, spares, and training readiness for field deployment.