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Posted Apr 16Technical Program Manager, Robotics Data Acquisition
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Drive Cross-Functional Integration Coordinate across robotics hardware, software, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver tightly integrated, deployment-ready data collection systems.
Requirements
- About Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments.
- We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives.
- This role sits at the intersection of Robotics Engineering, Operations, and Infrastructure, ensuring that DAQ stations and associated workflows reliably produce high-quality data for model training and evaluation.
- Success in this role requires strong systems thinking, operational rigor, and the ability to translate ambiguous research needs into scalable infrastructure. In this role
- experience in technical program management, systems engineering, or operations in hardware, robotics, or infrastructure-heavy environments - Strong systems-level thinking across hardware, software, and operational workflows - Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs with high ambiguity -
- Experience scaling physical systems (labs, factories, robotics fleets, or test infrastructure) - Comfortable working close to hardware and debugging real-world system issues - Strong analytical skills; able to model capacity, throughput, and system performance - Excellent communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- You might thrive in this role if you: - 5+ years of
Additional details
- Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors.
- About the Role We’re looking for a Technical Program Manager to own and scale the systems that power robotic data acquisition across our development and evaluation environments.
- You will drive end-to-end execution of complex, cross-functional programs that integrate robotic platforms, sensing systems, operator tooling, and data pipelines into cohesive, production-ready systems.
- you will: - Own DAQ Program Delivery Lead the roadmap, execution, and scaling of robotic DAQ systems, ensuring alignment with research, engineering, and operational priorities.
- - Operationalize Data Collection Systems Translate experimental and research workflows into repeatable, scalable DAQ processes with clear SLAs, metrics, and reliability targets.
- - System Readiness & Deployment Ensure DAQ stations (robots, sensors, compute, operator interfaces) are fully integrated, validated, and ready for production use across multiple sites.
- - Program Execution & Risk Management Build and manage detailed program plans, identify risks early, and drive mitigation across technical and operational domains.
- - Capacity & Throughput Planning Model and plan DAQ capacity (stations, operators, uptime) to meet evolving data demands, balancing speed, cost, and quality.
- - Quality & Data Integrity Oversight Partner with engineering and data teams to define and enforce data quality standards, ensuring consistency and usability for downstream model training.
- - Continuous Improvement Drive improvements in system reliability, utilization, and efficiency through instrumentation, feedback loops, and process optimization.