Senior Director of Product Security at Apptronik
- In Austin, TX.
Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life. Our flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate thoughtfully with people, starting with critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond. We operate at the cutting edge of Applied AI, applying our expertise across the full robotics stack to solve some of society's most important problems. You will join a team dedicated to bringing Apollo to market at scale, tackling the complex challenges like safety, commercialization, and mass production to change the world for the better. About Apptronik Apptronik is building Apollo, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed to work alongside people in real-world environments. We sit at the intersection of advanced hardware, embedded systems, and AI while scaling from development into deployment. As Apollo moves into the field, product security is a foundational requirement across everything we ship. Vulnerabilities here are not abstract: they have real-world consequences. The Role We are looking for a Senior Director of Product Security to own and drive Apptronik's end-to-end product security function. Reporting directly to the COO, you will have cross-functional authority across hardware engineering, software, systems engineering, and external partnerships. You will build the program from the ground up — establishing monitoring infrastructure, defining escalation protocols, and embedding security requirements into how Apollo is designed, built, and deployed. This is not a traditional IT or enterprise security role. You will be operating in a physical-AI product context with a distinct mandate from the CIO, who owns enterprise and corporate security. What You Will Do Program Leadership • Own Apptronik's product security strategy and roadmap, aligned to product and operational milestones • Build and lead a product security team — hiring, mentoring, and defining org structure as the function grows • Serve as the primary security voice to the COO and executive team, communicating risk posture, program status, and resource needs clearly • Develop a product security charter that defines boundaries and working relationships with T&V, Systems Engineering, and the CIO Monitoring & Threat Detection • Design and deploy monitoring frameworks for Apollo in both development and production/field environments — covering firmware, runtime behaviors, communications, and physical interfaces • Define telemetry and alerting requirements that enable early detection of anomalous behavior, unauthorized access attempts, or integrity violations • Establish continuous security testing pipelines integrated into hardware and software development cycles, in coordination with T&V Escalation & Incident Response • Build and own the product security escalation framework: from initial detection through triage, containment, customer notification, and remediation • Define severity classifications, response SLAs, and communication protocols for security events affecting deployed units or customer environments • Lead tabletop exercises and red team efforts to stress-test escalation paths before incidents occur Hardware & Software Security Requirements • Translate security principles into concrete, actionable requirements for hardware and software — covering secure boot chains, SoC and enclave security, physical attack surfaces, OS hardening, AI model integrity, OTA update security, and inter-process communication • Partner with HW, SW, and AI/ML engineering leads to review architectures early and drive security-by-design practices • Own the security review and sign-off process for new product features, third-party integrations, and software releases • Work with Systems Engineering to ensure security requirements are properly integrated into the requirements flow-down process Supply Chain & Vendor Security • Assess security …