Annotations Portfolio Lead

Physical Intelligence; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Physical Intelligence is seeking a hands-on Program Manager for the Annotations team to own a portfolio of annotation programs, partnering with researchers to translate needs into concrete requirements and rubrics.

You will drive continuous improvement across operations, balance strategic problem solving with tactical execution, and collaborate with vendors, researchers, and operations to deliver high-quality data.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program management or operations experience.
• Ability to translate researcher needs into concrete requirements.
• Strong problem solving and systems thinking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including with ESL audiences.
• Experience working with remote teams and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end performance for a portfolio of annotation programs.
• Partner with researchers to define and refine requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement across operations and scale tooling.
• Foster clarity and collaboration across stakeholders, including vendors.

Skills

Program management

Operations

Technical PM

Systems thinking

Data quality

Communication

Job description

Who We Are

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.

The Team

High-quality data is the fuel for our work. The Annotations team produces high-quality data labels to support model development.

This role is a hands-on owner for a portfolio of annotation programs: partnering with researchers to understand what data they need and why, translating that into concrete requirements and rubrics, and running the operation that delivers the data. This person will also be expected to drive continuous improvement across multiple surfaces to mature the annotations function and balance strategic problem solving with tactical execution.

In this role you will

• Own end-to-end performance for a portfolio of annotation programs, driving quality, speed, and efficiency

• Partner with researchers to define and refine requirements

• Drive step-function continuous improvement in our operations, identifying issues and building scalable solutions

• Foster clarity, collaboration, and alignment across both technical and nontechnical stakeholders, including vendor partners, researchers, operations

What we hope you'll bring

• 5+ years of experience in program management, operations, technical project management, consulting, startup operations, or similar roles

• Strong problem solving and systems thinking; ability to identify points of leverage in a constantly-evolving system and diagnose problems with incomplete information

• Intuition for data quality and research needs, grounded in understanding of model training and evaluation

• Stellar communication and ability to clarify nuance, structure complex information in digestible ways, and work with remote, ESL audiences

• Organizational skills to bring structure to chaos and balance needs across multiple programs

Bonus points

• Experience with data annotations for ML/AI, having seen versions of this problem before

• Experience with robotics, egocentric video, or other multimodal sensor data

• Experience with using coding agents to fill gaps in tooling / infra