Figure

Figure

Lead, Data Quality - Partnerships

San Jose, CA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 11 days ago
Machine LearningLLMsRoboticsLeadership

About the role

  • The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence.
  • Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA.
  • You'll source and select vendors, negotiate the commercials, set and enforce SLAs, and stand up the calibration and audit processes that keep external work on standard.

Responsibilities

  • Own the full external vendor portfolio for Data Quality: sourcing, evaluation, onboarding, and offboarding of data labeling and review partners.
  • Negotiate commercial terms, statements of work, and contracts, and manage pricing, budgets, and surge capacity across vendors.
  • Serve as the senior owner when a project rotates to external support, directing the Project Coordinators running that work.
  • Build and run the vendor scorecard: throughput, quality, inter-annotator agreement, and SLA adherence, reviewed in regular business reviews.
  • Partner with engineering and ML stakeholders to translate data quality requirements into vendor-ready guidelines and specs.
  • Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots.
  • Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets.

Requirements

  • A track record negotiating commercial terms (pricing, SOWs, capacity) and running vendor business reviews.
  • Experience setting quality standards, acceptance criteria, and audit or calibration processes that external teams executed against.
  • Comfort working with engineering and ML stakeholders to translate technical requirements into operational guidance.

Nice to have

  • Experience scaling a multi-vendor or multi-region labeling operation.
  • Experience with golden set / ground truth construction.
  • Background in robotics, autonomous systems, LLM, or physical AI data.
  • Experience standing up new vendor operations in international or lower-cost markets.
  • The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
  • This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $100,000 and $160,000 annually.
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