Robot Operator

Responsibilities

• Operate. You'll pilot our robots through new and existing behaviors — household manipulation, commercial workflows, dexterous tasks, recovery maneuvers.
• You're the person who figures out how a new task should be performed before it's written down.
• Write the playbook. Every recurring task, bring-up procedure, shutdown sequence, safety check, and data-collection protocol becomes an SOP under your ownership.
• You'll define what "good" looks like — pose conventions, framing, retry behavior, when to abort a take — and keep those documents alive as the platform evolves.
• Train the team. You'll onboard new operators, run shadowing sessions, certify them on each task class, and run periodic calibration reviews to catch drift.
• When a new behavior comes online, you're the one who teaches it.
• Own data quality. You'll spot-check collected episodes, flag bad data before it hits training, and partner with the AI team on what's working and what isn't.
• You're the closed-loop signal between what we collect and what the models actually learn.
• Run the floor. Daily collection planning, shift coordination, equipment readiness, robot uptime, safety incidents — the operations rhythm runs through you.
• You'll work cross-functionally with AI, hardware, and safety to keep collection unblocked.
• Improve the process. Cycle time, take success rate, hours-to-usable-data, operator ramp time — you'll instrument these and push them in the right direction.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in a hands-on operational role where physical skill, repeatability, and judgment all mattered — robotics teleoperation, motion capture, simulation/VR studios, surgical robotics, drone operations, stunt work, advanced manufacturing, professional gaming/esports coaching, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience writing SOPs, training materials, or operator certifications that other people actually used — not just personal notes.
• Track record of training or mentoring peers, even informally. You can teach a physical skill, not just perform it.
• Excellent physical coordination, spatial awareness, and stamina.
• Master new physical tasks quickly and can articulate why one approach beats another.
• Strong written communication — your SOPs should be clear enough that a new operator can follow them on day one.
• Comfortable giving and receiving direct feedback. The job is partly quality control; tact and honesty both matter.
• Thrive in an early, fast-moving environment where the process you wrote last month gets rewritten this month.
• Prior experience with humanoid or mobile-manipulation robots, VR/AR teleoperation rigs, or motion capture stages. (Preferred)
• Familiarity with data-collection pipelines for ML — what makes a demonstration usable vs. noise. (Preferred)
• Light scripting or tooling experience (Python, basic shell) for logging, tagging, or QA workflows. (Preferred)
• Background in athletic coaching, physical therapy, martial arts instruction, or another domain where teaching motor skill is the job. (Preferred)
• Experience running shifts or coordinating small teams in a regulated or safety-sensitive environment. (Preferred)