Robotics Data Strategy Lead - Training Data & Ops

Maven Robotics, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Maven Robotics is seeking a Head of Data Operations to own the strategy, systems, and teams turning raw robot experience into high-quality training data. You will lead data collection and evaluation operations and ensure models have data to improve reliability and performance.

You will collaborate with robot learning, evaluation, infrastructure, hardware, and data teams to translate failures and priorities into scalable collection programs and robust data pipelines, while guiding external data

Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling data programs in robotics, autonomous systems, or ML environments.
• Experience leading cross-functional data collection, evaluation, or dataset development teams.
• Strong fluency with ML data pipelines: ingestion, processing, validation, curation, and dataset generation.
• Ability to translate research priorities into scalable data programs.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data strategy and operations, including data collection, evaluation operations, data quality, dataset development, and training-ready datasets.
• Lead teams responsible for data collection and evaluation operations, including staffing, processes, quality standards, throughput, and performance.
• Translate research priorities, evaluation results, and model failures into clear data requirements, collection strategies, and dataset roadmaps.
• Partner with research and infrastructure teams to build scalable pipelines from raw robot data through validation, processing, curation, and training dataset generation.
• Define data quality standards and build systems for measuring coverage, diversity, throughput, utilization, cost, and dataset effectiveness.
• Own external data partnerships and evaluate opportunities to collect, acquire, license, partner for, or generate data that accelerates model development.
• Build operational processes and tooling that make data programs reproducible, measurable, and scalable as Maven’s fleet and research organization grow.

Skills

Data operations leadership

Robotics data pipelines

Cross-functional leadership

Data quality and governance

Dataset development

Tools

Python

SQL

Airflow

TensorFlow

Job description

Maven Robotics is seeking a Head of Data Operations to own the strategy, systems, and teams turning raw robot experience into high-quality training data. You will lead data collection and evaluation operations and ensure models have data to improve reliability and performance.

You will collaborate with robot learning, evaluation, infrastructure, hardware, and data teams to translate failures and priorities into scalable collection programs and robust data pipelines, while guiding external data