Senior Product Manager - Simulation

The role

You will drive the product vision and maintain the simulation platforms roadmap. You will focus on technical definitions for simulation environments and translate market demands into executable product roadmaps.

What you will do

• Own and maintain the simulation platforms roadmap including scope, sequencing, and feature priorities.
• Drive the technical definition of simulation environments for perception, autonomy, and navigation.
• Define and prioritize use cases for simulating realistic customer environments.
• Ensure the simulation platform features a highly configurable and intuitive UX for developers.
• Define and prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs.
• Ensure 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.
• Define product features and communicate requirements to engineering teams.
• Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in product management, or engineering roles.
• Demonstrated experience in developing or managing simulation environments, simulation-in-the-loop testing frameworks, or developer tools.
• Experience working with physics engines, robotic simulation engines, rendering pipelines, or digital twins for industrial environments.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in performance tracking and data-driven decision-making.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.
• Ability to prioritize user feedback.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen.
• Hearing and speech to communicate.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles.
• Experience with Unity, Issac, or MuJoCo.
• Experience generating synthetic data for perception, autonomy, and navigation stacks.
• Background in developing UI/UX for complex technical or developer-facing tools.

About the company

Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity. Their flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate with people in industries such as manufacturing and logistics.