Centific
Head of Physical AI Programs
$300K
East Palo Alto, CA · Director · Full-time · Posted Jun 15, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years.
About the job
Leads Centific’s Physical AI practice, defining its strategy and offerings while building teams, partnerships, and large-scale customer programs.
What you'll do
- Set the Physical AI vision, roadmap, and growth strategy; develop services and platform capabilities.
- Lead customer programs from concept through delivery, including data collection, simulation, training, benchmarking, and validation.
- Build strategic partnerships and teams, shape product direction, and support business development and growth.
What they ask for
- 12+ years leading large-scale programs in robotics, autonomous systems, AI, industrial automation, or related fields.
- Track record building and scaling business units, programs, or operational organizations.
- Deep understanding of Physical AI, robotics, embodied intelligence, simulation environments, and AI training ecosystems.
- Experience managing executive customer relationships and strategic programs; strong operational leadership with globally distributed teams.
Nice to have
- Experience at or closely working with organizations such as NVIDIA, Amazon Robotics, Tesla, Scale AI, Waymo, Figure AI, Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, or Aurora Innovation.
- Experience in robotics operations, humanoid robotics, autonomous systems, reinforcement learning, digital twins and simulation, teleoperations, human-in-the-loop workflows, AI data operations, or Physical AI safety and validation.
Pay
$300k + OTE (base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
AIDF, RLHF, RLAIF
AI focus
Leads development and scaling of Physical AI programs and capabilities, including robotics, embodied AI, autonomous systems, simulation, reinforcement learning, synthetic data, and real-world data operations.
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