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Responsibilities
- Own Apptronik’s product security strategy, roadmap, charter, team, budget, and organizational structure.
- Design monitoring, telemetry, alerting, continuous security testing, escalation, incident response, tabletop exercise, and red-team programs for Apollo.
- Define and enforce security requirements across hardware, software, firmware, AI models, communications, operating systems, OTA updates, and physical interfaces.
- Own security architecture for OTA updates, including integrity verification, rollback protection, and secure delivery infrastructure.
- Establish physical anti-tamper, anti-cloning, IP protection, vulnerability disclosure, and bug bounty programs.
- Assess hardware suppliers, contract manufacturers, software vendors, AI stack partners, cloud platforms, and data pipeline vendors.
- Track relevant regulatory and export-control requirements and advise on government, defense-adjacent, and international engagements.
- Own security for Apollo’s operational and environmental data pipeline and partner with the CIO on data governance.
- Support customer security integrations, reviews, due diligence, SOC integration, access controls, and audit-log requirements.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in security engineering or product security and 5+ years leading security organizations, including managing managers, owning budgets, and defining team structures.
- Experience building a security discipline from the ground up in an emerging hardware or physical-AI domain.
- Deep experience securing embedded systems, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other physical-AI products.
- Hands-on expertise in secure boot, firmware security, cryptographic key management, network and communications security, and application-layer threats.
- Experience building security monitoring and incident-response programs for production hardware environments.
- Demonstrated ability to translate security risks into product and engineering requirements and enforce security-by-design practices.
- Experience with supply-chain security assessments and third-party vendor risk management.
- Familiarity with OTA update security architecture and field-deployed hardware risks.
- Working knowledge of ITAR, EAR, IEC 62443, NIST, OWASP, and CWE.
- Strong communication skills for executive presentations, systems-architecture discussions, and embedded-engineering requirements.
Benefits
- Direct hire position based in Austin, Texas.
- Direct support from the COO, cross-functional authority, and the opportunity to build a product security program from scratch for real-world humanoid robots.
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About Apptronik
Apptronik designs and manufactures AI-enabled humanoid robots, led by its Apollo platform, to automate tasks alongside people in manufacturing and logistics, with potential use in healthcare and homes. The privately held company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and grew out of the University of Texas at Austin’s Human Centered Robotics Lab; its team previously worked on NASA’s Valkyrie robot. Apptronik’s business model centers on selling robots and the software and services needed to deploy them in industrial environments.