Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Austin, TX

Develop and maintain firmware for humanoid robot dexterous hands, including motor control, sensor integration, real-time communications, distributed MCU networks, hardware bring-up, and HIL/SIL testing. Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and systems engineers from prototype through production. Support firmware reliability, telemetry, diagnostics, field-failure analysis, code reviews, and design reviews while developing embedded systems expertise with mentorship.

Designs, analyzes, builds, tests, and validates drivetrain technologies for robotic electric actuators. Responsibilities include gear and gearbox design, bearing and lubrication selection, materials and manufacturing process selection, FEA, documentation, pilot builds, DVP&R, and design optimization for scalability and manufacturability. Collaborates with cross-disciplinary engineering teams to develop high-performance, cost-effective robotic drivetrain systems.

Lead the design, analysis, prototyping, testing, and documentation of rotary and linear actuators for humanoid robots. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, perform FEA and DVP&R, create GD&T drawings and BOMs, support pilot builds, and optimize designs for scalability and design for manufacture and assembly.

The Senior Compensation Analyst supports total rewards strategy through job evaluations, market pricing, compensation surveys, pay equity analysis, salary structures, merit cycles, bonus and equity programs, and compliance reviews. The role advises People Partners, recruiters, and business leaders, develops compensation models and recommendations, supports compensation technology implementations, and contributes to cross-functional projects in a rapidly growing technical organization.

Build and lead Apptronik’s People Analytics function, developing workforce analytics strategy, predictive models, dashboards, KPI frameworks, and data governance. Advise executive leadership on talent strategy, organizational health, workforce planning, and organizational design. Establish people-data standards, security, access controls, compliance practices, and architecture in partnership with IT and Data Engineering. Translate workforce data into actionable business narratives while mentoring analytics teams and supporting HR initiatives.

Manage Workday functional configuration with primary ownership of Workday Payroll. Configure earnings, deductions, taxes, accounting, pay groups, security roles, and business processes. Partner with Finance and payroll vendors on processing, reconciliation, compliance, audits, and tax filings. Lead testing, defect resolution, documentation, and continuous system improvement while supporting workforce planning, organizational design, performance cycles, and other strategic People initiatives.

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.