Technical Program Manager, Robotics Data & QA

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

Job summary

Foundry Robotics is seeking a Technical Program Manager to translate model-team requirements into scalable production data. You will define what to capture, how it lands, and its usability, from early specs through pre-delivery validation.

Build a data collection program from scratch and drive rapid build-test-learn cycles for rigorous datasets. You will act as the day-to-day liaison with the model team and frontier labs, owning hours captured, hours delivered, and hours usable, while partnering

Qualifications

• 3–5 years as a PM/TPM with exposure to hardware, data pipelines, or physical workflows.
• Proven ability to build data collection or technical operations programs from the ground up.
• Comfortable owning task specs, QA programs, and standardization.
• Equally effective at a desk and on the floor, with hands-on calibration and stakeholder updates.
• SQL or Python proficient enough to pull data and build dashboards.
• Track record improving program metrics (usable hours, mix accuracy, SLA attainment, rejection rates).
• Experience providing technical input in cross-functional environments with researchers and engineers.
• Collaborative by nature, considering downstream impacts on operators, model teams, and infrastructure.
• Bias toward action, scrappy problem solving, and moving fast without sacrificing 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, including GoPro intrinsics, fisheye calibration, UMI gripper width drift, and per-operator VR eye-tracking calibration
• Define success criteria with the model team, translating high-level data needs into rejection rules an assembler can apply consistently
• 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 before full production
• Curate gold-standard demos (20–50 reference demos per task), maintained against drift
• Run post-capture QA (sampling + success classifier) and pre-delivery validation against model team spec
• Track diversity and coverage across task variants, object positions, lighting conditions, and operator styles
• Run daily capture logs and weekly dataset reporting to model and research stakeholders, including hours captured, hours usable, mix vs. target, top rejection reasons, and blockers
• Own task spec versioning, coordinating SOP updates, retraining triggers, and data v1/v2 marking when the model team changes a spec
• Own the 48-hour handoff SLA, including staging, upload integrity, episode schema enforcement, and metadata completeness
• Run RCA when batches get rejected and close the loop with the floor
• Define and report against program-level OKRs for usable hours delivered, mix accuracy, and SLA attainment
• Own data governance and compliance, including episode-level metadata for auditability, retention and deletion policies, and adherence to data handling standards required by frontier lab partners

Skills

PM/TPM experience

Data ops program

Task specs QA

Hands-on calibration

SQL/Python

Program metrics

Cross-functional collaboration

Cross-functional impact

Bias toward action

Job description

Foundry Robotics is seeking a Technical Program Manager to translate model-team requirements into scalable production data. You will define what to capture, how it lands, and its usability, from early specs through pre-delivery validation.

Build a data collection program from scratch and drive rapid build-test-learn cycles for rigorous datasets. You will act as the day-to-day liaison with the model team and frontier labs, owning hours captured, hours delivered, and hours usable, while partnering