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 stated as required.
About the job
Manages a San Francisco robotics data collection shift, leading a 20–30-person team and ensuring data quality, throughput, safety, and delivery for robotics research.
What you'll do
- Set priorities and own shift metrics, staffing, work allocation, reporting, and issue escalation.
- Improve data-collection capacity, quality, and productivity through process and technical initiatives with engineering, research, and vendor partners.
- Coach and develop data collectors; support hiring, onboarding, training, and vendor performance management.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of people management and team development experience.
- 5+ years of operations experience.
- Experience with continuous improvement processes.
- Familiarity with Word and Excel, ability to create reports and track metrics, and strong technical and non-technical program management.
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 data collection operations producing ground-truth data for frontier robotics foundation models.
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