WorldEngine AI
Strategic Project Lead, Robotics
$120K–$200K
SF Bay Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
About the job
Leads robotics data-collection operations for AI lab customers, managing partner sites, data quality and coverage, supply targets, and customer relationships.
What you'll do
- Design and manage the collection pipeline from site onboarding through data delivery; improve workflows, quality, throughput, and cost-efficiency.
- Own dataset coverage and supply targets, identify gaps, and coordinate with growth to add commercial partners.
- Serve as the primary contact for AI lab research teams, provide progress reporting, and run daily internal syncs.
What they ask for
- Background in consulting, private equity, startups, or another operationally intense environment.
- Strong analytical and communication abilities.
- Proven track record managing complex projects.
- Comfort operating without a playbook in a new organization or startup.
Nice to have
- Experience in physical operations, supply chain, logistics, manufacturing planning, marketplace supply, or distributed, multi-site operations.
- Experience with annotation, labeling, training-data operations, robotics, or physical AI.
Pay
USD $120K – $200K base salary
AI focus
Supports robotics AI research by managing collection and delivery of high-quality datasets; the posting does not specify AI model development.
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