Staff Product Manager, Applied AI

Job Summary

You will focus on driving the product vision, ensuring seamless execution across the complex hardware/software divide, and translating market demands into user oriented, executable product roadmaps.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities / Key Accountabilities

• Own and maintain the physical AI model roadmap: product vision, milestones, and release cycles for the core model stack
• Drive the integration, adaptation, and fine-tuning of foundation models into Apollo's autonomy stack
• Sequence which capabilities graduate into the shipping model, balancing capability velocity against reliability and safety
• Translate customer use cases into model capability requirements and acceptance criteria
• Partner with our data collection and evaluation team on benchmarks, real-world evaluation, and the success criteria that gate real-world deployment
• Own the data strategy that feeds model development: define what to collect and why, the target tasks and behaviors, and the quality bar
• Align data technology and operations teams on collection techniques, tooling, and quality expectations
• Define and prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs
• Ensure that product development efforts align with real-world economic value for customers
• Synthesize insights from user research, customer meetings, usage data, and sales feedback into a strategy that delivers business objectives and customer benefits
• Work with industrial design, user experience, and engineering teams to conceptualize and implement interactive features
• Define product features/enhancements and communicate requirements to engineering teams via clearly written requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication
• Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of our products

Skills And Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product management
• Strong understanding of modern robot learning techniques including imitation learning, reinforcement learning
• Demonstrated experience integrating, adapting, or fine-tuning models
• Strong familiarity with the constraints of running large neural networks on physical edge devices
• Excellent analytical skills with experience in performance tracking and data-driven decision-making
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact
• Make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection
• Prioritize user feedback, promoting and advocating for that voice to internal teams

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles
• Experience using simulation tools to improve user experience
• Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning foundation
• Experience with data collection operation (teleoperation fleets, annotation and curation pipelines)
• Experience working with customers in light and heavy duty industrial environments
• Experience with robotics and functional safety standards (ISO 10218, ISO/TS 15066, ISO 13482, RIA 15.08)

Education And/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in mechanical, electrical, systems, or robotics engineering, or a related field; advanced degree or MBA helpful
• At least 10 years of experience in product management or engineering, including 5+ years leading product managers, with a track record of shipping complex hardware products

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Ability to spend time on lab and manufacturing floors, and to travel to supplier and manufacturing sites as needed
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
• Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen; hearing and speech to communicate

Pay

The annual salary range is $215,000 - $245,000

Schedule

This is a direct hire.