# Technical Program Manager, Robotics Data

**Company**: Scale
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $151,200-$189,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scaleai/jobs/4663997005
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2f00084c-002

## Description

As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Robotics Data, you will drive initiatives that secure $XXM+ in new revenue across our most complex technical operations. You will work with multiple project leads across a vast portfolio of robotics data projects, ensuring technical milestones are met, dependencies are de-risked, and stakeholders are aligned. You should be prepared to wear many hats and be excited about intense, impactful work that leads to accelerated career progression.\n\nYour key responsibilities will include:\n\n* Driving multi-project outcomes: serving as the primary driver for a portfolio of robotics projects, tracking milestones, deliverables, and dependencies to ensure on-time delivery for the world’s leading AI researchers.\n* Bridging the technical-operational gap: acting as the central liaison between AI clients, hardware engineers, and global operational teams to translate high-level goals into executable data collection workflows.\n* Architecting scalable pipelines: partnering with engineering to design and optimize end-to-end data ingestion pipelines, ensuring they can handle the high-fidelity sensor data (video, logs, teleop) required for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.\n* Enforcing data quality & governance: defining KPIs and Quality Assurance (QA) metrics to ensure datasets are high-fidelity, labeled correctly, and compliant with rigorous privacy and safety standards.\n* Standardizing for scale: developing and refining Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that allow us to scale collection efforts across global, distributed teams.\n* Communicating with precision: providing regular, data-driven progress updates to Scale’s executive team, utilizing SQL and dashboards to monitor performance and guide strategic pivots.\n\nTo succeed in this role, you will need:\n\n* A strong technical foundation: a degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, combined with a deep understanding of AI/ML.\n* 2-3+ years of TPM experience: proven track record of managing complex, cross-functional technical programs, ideally in robotics, hardware, or large-scale data operations.\n* Hands-on problem-solving skills: a proactive approach to overcoming technical and logistical roadblocks in a fast-paced environment.\n* Operational grit: experience "in the weeds" of operational challenges - you don’t just identify bottlenecks; you build the solution to clear them.\n* Entrepreneurial mindset: you are comfortable with ambiguity and excited about building infrastructure from scratch in a fast-paced environment.\n\nNice to have:\n\n* SQL proficiency: ability to pull your own data and build your own tracking dashboards.\n* Global experience: experience interacting with distributed teams or collection sites across different time zones.\n* Robotics domain expertise: familiarity with robotic hardware, sensor calibration, or the nuances of collecting data for Physical AI.\n* AI/CV knowledge: familiarity with Computer Vision or Large Language Model (LLM) training requirements.

## Skills

### Required
- Technical Program Management
- Robotics Data
- AI/ML
- Data Ingestion Pipelines
- SQL
- Dashboards

### Nice to have
- SQL Proficiency
- Global Experience
- Robotics Domain Expertise
- AI/CV Knowledge