Physical Intelligence
Annotations Portfolio Lead
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 4, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in program management, operations, technical project management, consulting, startup operations, or similar roles.
About the job
Owns a portfolio of annotation programs, translating researchers’ data needs into requirements and rubrics while improving the quality, speed, and efficiency of annotation operations.
What you'll do
- Manage end-to-end performance across annotation programs.
- Partner with researchers to define and refine requirements.
- Identify operational issues and build scalable improvements, coordinating with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking skills, including diagnosing issues with incomplete information.
- Understanding of data quality, research needs, model training, and evaluation.
- Excellent communication, including the ability to clarify complex information for remote, ESL audiences.
- Strong organizational skills to structure work and balance needs across multiple programs.
Nice to have
- Experience with ML/AI data annotation.
- Experience with robotics, egocentric video, multimodal sensor data, or coding agents for tooling/infra.
AI focus
The role supports model development by delivering high-quality annotation data and aligning annotation programs with model training and evaluation needs.
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