Physical Intelligence
Shift Lead
San Francisco · Mid
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About the role
- Proactively communicate status, technical blockers, hardware failures, and process bottlenecks.
- Proactively identify, help resolve, and report unsafe conditions.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate operators by assigning work and adjusting resources in real-time based on priorities and constraints.
- Team Leadership & People Development: Supervise, train, and develop operators, ensuring adherence to work standards.
- Data Collection and Quality: Own factory throughput and data quality for your team; identify deviations from standard work, take immediate corrective action, and ensure all defects are properly documented and escalated.
- Maintain highly accurate shift handoff notes.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities; able to manage multiple competing priorities with limited resources.
- Provide daily boots-on-the-ground leadership to drive data collection, verify availability of stations, props, and staffing, and ensure production continues smoothly during disruptions or staffing gaps.
Nice to have
- Hold a bachelor's degree in a STEM field, Operations, or similar or equivalent practical experience.
- 3-5 years of experience in tech operations, manufacturing, or related fast-paced physical environments - ideally in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other frontier hardware-AI integration sectors.
- 2+ years of proven experience managing, scheduling, and motivating a team of hourly, shift-based workers.
- Detail-oriented and comfortable using operational dashboards
- ability to quickly learn proprietary robotics software interfaces.
- Clear, direct communicator who can translate operational gaps into structured feedback for technical teams
- outstanding collaboration skills in cross-functional environments.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities under pressure with a high bias for action and a demonstrated history of removing operational blockers in real-time.
Company info
- The Operations team drives the day-to-day execution of robot data collection and production at our San Francisco facility, partnering closely with research, hardware, and software teams to support our mission of bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.
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