Robotics Data Product Manager – Field Ops & Pipelines

Auxo Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Auxo Talent is seeking a Technical Product Manager – Data for a hands-on role in robotics data across the research and engineering teams in the San Francisco area. You will own end-to-end data collection programmes, design collection protocols, supervise hardware rigs and data pipelines, and ensure high-quality, scalable datasets for model training and robotics applications.

Collaboration with researchers, robotics engineers and field operators is essential, with a bias toward practical

Qualifications

• Experience managing technical programmes with real operational complexity.
• Hands-on experience with both hardware and data, with the ability to understand a physical sensor/robotics setup as well as the associated data pipeline.
• Direct experience running or operating data-collection programmes, rather than purely managing them from a distance.
• Strong understanding of data quality assurance, from initial collection through to training-ready datasets.
• The ability to diagnose why data is failing, identify root causes and implement improvements.
• A highly data-driven approach, with experience defining metrics and using them to improve operational performance.
• Strong systems-thinking and process-design skills, with the ability to build workflows that can scale.
• High operational rigour and a strong bias towards action, particularly within ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across research, engineering and field/operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of robotics data collection programmes, from research requirements through to delivered datasets.
• Translate research objectives into clear data-collection protocols, task definitions and quality standards.
• Coordinate data-collection operations across multiple sites, teams and teleoperators, managing throughput, quality and cost.
• Work closely with engineering teams to develop and improve pipelines handling high-fidelity robotics data, including video, sensor data, robot logs and teleoperation trajectories.
• Set up, maintain and scale physical data-collection rigs and associated hardware.
• Establish and monitor operational KPIs including data throughput, yield, cost per hour of data and turnaround time.
• Identify operational and technical bottlenecks and take ownership of developing solutions rather than simply reporting issues.
• Establish robust processes for data QA, ensuring data remains high-quality from initial collection through to its use in model training.
• Work closely with research and engineering teams to understand why datasets are failing and continuously improve collection processes.
• Keep researchers, engineers and field/operations teams aligned around priorities, requirements and delivery timelines.
• Build scalable workflows and systems that can support increasing volumes of robotics data collection.

Skills

Technical programmes

Hardware & data

Data quality assurance

Metrics-driven

Systems thinking

Operational rigour

Communication skills

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Auxo Talent is seeking a Technical Product Manager – Data for a hands-on role in robotics data across the research and engineering teams in the San Francisco area. You will own end-to-end data collection programmes, design collection protocols, supervise hardware rigs and data pipelines, and ensure high-quality, scalable datasets for model training and robotics applications.

Collaboration with researchers, robotics engineers and field operators is essential, with a bias toward practical