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LAYIQ - Senior Director of Product Security at Apptronik, Austin, TX

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

12+ years in security engineering or product security, with 5+ years leading security organizations — including experience managing managers, owning budget, and defining team structure
Demonstrated experience defining and building a security discipline in an emerging hardware or physical-AI domain — where the threat model, requirements, and processes did not exist before you arrived
Deep experience securing embedded systems, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other physical-AI products — you understand that software vulnerabilities here can have kinetic consequences
Hands-on expertise across the stack: secure boot, firmware security, cryptographic key management, network and communication security, and application-layer threats
Strong background building security monitoring and incident response programs in production hardware environments
Track record of translating security risk into product and engineering requirements that teams actually ship — and the organizational credibility to enforce them
Experience with supply chain security assessments and third-party vendor risk management
Familiarity with OTA update security architecture and the risks unique to field-deployed hardware
Working knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks: ITAR, EAR, IEC 62443, NIST, OWASP, CWE
Excellent communication skills — you can present to the C-suite, debate trade-offs with a systems architect, and write crisp requirements for an embedded engineer
Why This Role
You will define how Apptronik thinks about security as we scale — setting the bar for an industry that is still determining what secure humanoid robotics means. You will have direct COO support, real cross-functional authority, and the opportunity to build a program from scratch at a company shipping real hardware into the real world.
Apptronik · Austin, TX · apptronik.com
*This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations.
Apptronik provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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