Foundry Robotics
Physical AI Deployment Strategist
$150K–$250K
Emeryville, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 3–5 years as a PM or TPM.
About the job
Build and manage a physical-AI data collection program, ensuring robotic task data is calibrated, quality-checked, documented, and delivered to model teams on schedule.
What you'll do
- Manage and calibrate capture rigs, and oversee procurement, asset tracking, maintenance, and vendor relationships.
- Translate model-team needs into task specifications, SOPs, quality gates, and dataset validation and reporting processes.
- Own data handoffs, governance, coverage tracking, rejection analysis, and program-level metrics.
What they ask for
- 3–5 years as a PM or TPM, with exposure to hardware, data pipelines, or physical workflows.
- Proven ability to build and improve data collection or technical operations programs.
- Proficiency in SQL or Python sufficient to query data and build dashboards.
- Experience tracking and improving program metrics and providing technical input in cross-functional work with researchers and engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting vendor or hardware supplier relationships.
- Exposure to robotics, VLA models, or foundation model training data; scaling data collection; or computer vision, sensor calibration, or robotics data pipelines.
Pay
$150,000—$250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Python, UMI grippers, GoPros, VR headsets, VR controllers
AI focus
Collect, quality-check, and deliver robotics task data for model teams and frontier labs; curate reference demonstrations and validate datasets against model-team specifications.
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