Amazon
Manager, Robotics Data Collection Ops, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)
$149K–$222K
San Francisco, CA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of people management and team development; 5+ years of operations experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in any field (STEM preferred but not required); not listed as a basic qualification.
About the job
Manages a San Francisco robotics data collection shift, leading a 20–30-person team to deliver high-quality data while meeting operational, safety, and throughput goals.
What you'll do
- Own team priorities, delivery, quality, throughput, and safety metrics; manage staffing, work allocation, and escalations.
- Plan capacity and drive process and technical improvements to increase data collection efficiency and resolve bottlenecks.
- Coordinate with researchers, engineers, Data Ops and vendor teams; track and report metrics, and support hiring and training.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of people management and team development experience.
- 5+ years of operations experience.
- Experience with continuous improvement processes.
- Strong technical and non-technical program management; familiarity with Word and Excel and ability to create reports and track metrics.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in any field (STEM preferred but not required).
- Experience managing robotics, data, or ML data operations teams.
Pay
148,600.00 - 222,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Word, Excel
AI focus
Leads operations producing ground-truth data used to train frontier robotics foundation models.
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