Foundry Robotics

Strategic Projects Lead

Emeryville, CA. Posted 5 months ago

The role

The Strategic Projects Lead will stand up a data collection program from scratch and drive build-test-learn cycles. You will manage rig fleets, define success criteria for data, and act as the interface between the model team and frontier labs.

What you will do

  • Manage the rig fleet end-to-end including procurement, lifecycle, and vendor relationships
  • Own rig calibration cadence and drift detection
  • Define success criteria with the model team
  • Author SOPs for floor execution
  • Own new task ramp-up including spec, SOP, and pilot batch design
  • Curate gold-standard demos
  • Run post-capture QA and pre-delivery validation
  • Track diversity and coverage across task variants
  • Run daily capture logs and weekly dataset reporting
  • Own task spec versioning and data governance

Required qualifications

  • 3–5 years as a strong PM or TPM with exposure to hardware, data pipelines, or physical workflows
  • Proven ability to build data collection or technical operations programs from the ground up
  • Comfortable owning task specs, QA programs, and standardization
  • Hands-on experience calibrating a rig and writing stakeholder updates
  • SQL or Python proficient enough to pull data and build dashboards
  • Track record tracking and improving program metrics
  • Experience providing technical input in a cross-functional environment with researchers and engineers

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting vendor or hardware supplier relationships
  • Exposure to robotics, VLA models, or foundation model training data
  • Experience scaling a data collection program from prototype to high-volume production
  • Familiarity with computer vision, sensor calibration, or robotics data pipelines

Benefits

  • Base salary
  • Equity
  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • Generous PTO

About the company

Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability. Their mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer.