AI Manufacturing Data Ops Lead

Garuda Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision coverage

Generous PTO

Equity compensation

Job summary

Foundry Robotics is seeking a Technical Program Manager to turn model team requirements into production data, architect QA systems, and stand up a data collection program from scratch. You will define what gets captured, how it lands, and whether it is usable through pre-delivery validation.

You will be the day-to-day interface with the model team and frontier labs, owning hours captured, hours delivered, and hours usable, collaborating with Operations Manager, Robotics Data, to ensure floor

Qualifications

• 3–5 years as a strong PM or TPM with exposure to hardware, data pipelines, or physical workflows
• Proven ability to build data collection or technical operations programs from the ground up and improve on existing ones
• Comfortable owning task specs, QA programs, and standardization
• Equally effective at a desk and on the floor, with hands-on calibration experience and clear stakeholder updates
• SQL or Python proficient enough to pull data and build dashboards
• Track record of improving program metrics (usable hours, mix accuracy, SLA attainment, rejection rates)
• Experience providing technical input in cross-functional teams with researchers and engineers
• Collaborative by nature, considering downstream impacts on operators and infrastructure
• Bias toward action, scrappy problem solving, moving fast with rigor

Responsibilities

• Manage the rig fleet end-to-end (UMI grippers, GoPros, VR headsets and controllers) including procurement, lifecycle, asset tracking, spares, and vendor relationships
• Own rig calibration cadence and drift detection, GoPro intrinsics, fisheye calibration, and per-operator VR eye-tracking calibration
• Define success criteria with the model team and translate data needs into rejection rules
• Author SOPs and hand them to the Operations Manager for floor execution
• Own new task ramp-up, including spec, SOP, pilot batch design, and quality gate sign-off
• Curate 20–50 reference demos per task maintained against drift
• Run post-capture QA and pre-delivery validation against model specs
• Track diversity and coverage across task variants, lighting, and operator styles
• Run daily capture logs and weekly dataset reporting to model and research stakeholders
• Own task spec versioning, SOP updates, retraining triggers, and data v1/v2 marking
• Own 48-hour handoff SLA including staging and metadata completeness
• Run RCA when batches are rejected and close the loop with the floor
• Define and report program-level OKRs for usable hours, mix accuracy, and SLA attainment
• Own data governance and compliance for auditability and retention policies

Skills

SQL or Python

Data pipelines

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Hardware exposure

Job description

Foundry Robotics is seeking a Technical Program Manager to turn model team requirements into production data, architect QA systems, and stand up a data collection program from scratch. You will define what gets captured, how it lands, and whether it is usable through pre-delivery validation.

You will be the day-to-day interface with the model team and frontier labs, owning hours captured, hours delivered, and hours usable, collaborating with Operations Manager, Robotics Data, to ensure floor