Technical Program Manager, Robotics Data

3–5 years as a strong PM or TPM with exposure to hardware, data pipelines, or physical workflows

Proven ability to build data collection or technical operations programs from the ground up and improve on existing ones

Comfortable owning task specs, QA programs, and standardization

Equally effective at a desk and on the floor, with deep hands-on experience calibrating a rig one hour and writing a stakeholder update the next

SQL or Python proficient enough to pull your own data and build your own dashboards

Track record tracking and improving program metrics (usable hours, mix accuracy, SLA attainment, rejection rates)

Experience providing technical input in a cross-functional environment with researchers and engineers

Collaborative by nature, you consider downstream impacts on operators, model teams, and infrastructure when making program decisions

Bias toward action, scrappy problem solving, and moving fast without sacrificing rigor

Experience supporting vendor or hardware supplier relationships

Exposure to robotics, VLA models, or foundation model training data

Experience scaling a data collection program from prototype to high-volume production

Familiarity with computer vision, sensor calibration, or robotics data pipelines

This is one of the only places where world-class manufacturing operators, mechanical engineers, robotics researchers, and software engineers sit in the same room — building production systems together.

We are committed to being deeply embedded in the U.S. industrial base. Our focus is simple: build adaptive robotic assembly systems that make American manufacturing scalable, resilient, and competitive again.

If you want to run a mature, well-defined commercial org, this may not be the role.

If you want to build the commercial engine that brings AI-driven manufacturing to every industrial and energy customer in America — this is it.

The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is:

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