Research Product Manager, Robotics

What you'll do

• Build relationships with researchers and budget stakeholders, serving as a technical point of contact and advising on robotics data.
• Run the benchmark and publication roadmap and co-design pilot prototypes, requirements, and success metrics with researchers.
• Evaluate robotics data hands-on, forecast future customer demand, and feed it into the company roadmap.

What they ask for

• Hands-on technical background in engineering or research.
• Prior work with researchers on pre-training or post-training data at a lab, model company, or data vendor.
• Fluency in current robot-learning training and evaluation, including imitation learning, world models, and VLA-style policies.
• Experience scoping and landing external projects, pilots, or deals.

Nice to have

• Robotics, autonomous vehicles, or physical AI experience; an existing network among robotics and AI researchers.
• Experience designing ML evaluations or benchmarks; 3+ years in product, solutions, consulting, or another customer-facing role at a startup or high-growth company.

Pay

$160K – $300K (base salary; pay type not specified)

Tools

imitation learning, world models, VLA-style policies, egocentric video, teleoperation, tactile capture

AI focus

Applies research-led go-to-market, benchmarks, publications, data pilots, and evaluations to robotics and embodied AI models.