Foundry Robotics

Foundry Robotics

Operations Manager, Robotics Data

San Francisco · Director · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$60k-$95kDetected 59 days ago
OKRsLogisticsPerformance ManagementCadenceRoboticsAR/VRClinical TrialsProblem SolvingAdaptability

About the role

  • Together you are accountable for whether the floor ships what the model teams need.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end workforce lifecycle for 50+ operators, including sourcing, screening, hiring, onboarding, certification, performance management, and offboarding
  • Manage shift leads (3-5 direct reports) and operate escalation paths into engineering
  • Build and review operator scorecards weekly, tracking success rate, rejection rate, and throughput, surfacing and managing the 60-95% quality variance common across operators
  • Design and execute a quality-first incentive structure
  • Build the onboarding curriculum and certification gating, ensuring no operator captures production data until certified on the rig and task
  • Own contractor timekeeping, the payroll vendor relationship, and floor logistics including layout, station configuration, supplies, badging, safety, EHS, and facilities
  • Manage VR teleop floor logistics, including headset hygiene, motion sickness rotation policies, and controller battery and charging logistics
  • Build the career ladder for top operators (operator → senior → trainer → shift lead)
  • build adaptive robotic assembly systems that make American manufacturing scalable, resilient, and competitive again.
  • If you want to build the commercial engine that brings AI-driven manufacturing to every industrial and energy customer in America - this is it.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years managing a contractor or hourly workforce of 30+ in a high-throughput operations environment (data collection, AV ops, manufacturing, fulfillment, clinical trials, field ops)
  • Track record tracking and improving operational metrics (throughput, quality, retention, certification rates)
  • Experience designing onboarding, certification, and performance management programs in a cross-functional environment

Compensation

  • The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of
  • $150,000-$250,000 USD

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, and generous PTO.
  • Compensation packages at Foundry Robotics for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits.
  • Foundry Robotics employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval.
  • shift planning, station assignments, breaks, and coverage
  • Own fleet readiness on the floor, including daily rig health checks, in-

Company info

  • Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. Basically, we're building robots that build robots.
  • We are reimagining manufacturing through advanced robotics. Our mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer. We aim to empower manufacturers with intelligent, efficient, and adaptable robotic systems that redefine productivity and quality.
  • This role is for an Operations Manager who thrives on building and running a high-performance contractor workforce, equally comfortable designing onboarding programs from first principles and walking the floor to fix what's broken in real time. You will own the people-and-process layer that turns billable contractor hours into delivered, usable data, managing 50+ operators executing UMI gripper, egocentric, and VR teleop data collection against real customer contracts. You will stand up workforce operations from scratch and drive rapid build-test-learn cycles to deliver an operation that is both rigorous and scalable.
  • Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware.
  • Basically, we're building robots that build robots.
  • We are reimagining manufacturing through advanced robotics.
  • Our mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer.
  • We aim to empower manufacturers with intelligent, efficient, and adaptable robotic systems that redefine productivity and quality.
Apply directly at Foundry Robotics →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Foundry Robotics immigration profile

This listing is sourced directly from Foundry Robotics's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.