Staff Product Manager, Applied AI
$215,000–$245,000 year
On-siteMountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Own and maintain the physical AI model roadmap, including 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, sequencing capabilities to balance velocity against reliability and safety. Translate customer use cases into model capability requirements and acceptance criteria, then synthesize insights from user research, customer meetings, and usage data into a strategy that delivers business objectives. Partner with data collection and evaluation teams on benchmarks and real-world evaluation, while defining the data strategy that feeds model development. Align data technology and operations teams on collection techniques and quality expectations, then define and prioritize use cases based on business impact and feasibility. Communicate requirements to engineering teams via written documents and diagrams, and work with industrial design and UX teams to implement interactive features. Support product marketing initiatives and partner relationships to accelerate product adoption.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- Strong 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
- You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection
- You prioritize user feedback, promoting and advocating for that voice to internal teams
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in mechanical, electrical, systems, or robotics engineering, or a related field
- At least 10 years of experience in product management or engineering
- 5+ years leading product managers
- Track record of shipping complex hardware products
- Ability to spend time on lab and manufacturing floors
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- 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)
- Advanced degree or MBA
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