Figure AI
Humanoid Robot Operator (Afternoon Shift)
San Jose, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Jan 14, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States
About the job
Operate humanoid robots in customer deployments, test their performance, identify and document issues, and follow safety and maintenance procedures.
What you'll do
- Run robots for customer use cases, monitoring for bugs and problems.
- Track, document, and escalate issues to engineering teams using Jira.
- Follow work-area, safety, equipment-maintenance, bring-up, and shutdown procedures.
What they ask for
- Experience working with robots or troubleshooting mechanical systems.
- Ability to stand and move throughout an 8+ hour shift and safely handle hardware weighing up to 50 lbs independently.
- Excellent communication skills, sustained focus, and willingness to take ownership of robot operations.
- Work a five-day schedule that includes a mandatory weekend shift.
Nice to have
- Passion for scaling deployment of learning humanoid robots.
- Strong physical coordination, spatial awareness, and ability to learn physical tasks quickly.
Pay
$30.00 per hour (base pay)
Tools
Jira
AI focus
Operate humanoid robots and test and validate their behaviors and skills in commercial use cases.
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