Technical Program Manager, Robotics Data Acquisition
OpenAI
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $257,000 - $300,000 per year
About the role
- Own DAQ Program Delivery: Lead the roadmap, execution, and scaling of robotic DAQ systems, ensuring alignment with research, engineering, and operational priorities.
- Drive Cross-Functional Integration: Coordinate across robotics hardware, software, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver tightly integrated, deployment-ready data collection systems.
- Operationalize Data Collection Systems: Translate experimental and research workflows into repeatable, scalable DAQ processes with clear SLAs, metrics, and reliability targets.
- System Readiness & Deployment: Ensure DAQ stations (robots, sensors, compute, operator interfaces) are fully integrated, validated, and ready for production use across multiple sites.
- Program Execution & Risk Management: Build and manage detailed program plans, identify risks early, and drive mitigation across technical and operational domains.
- Capacity & Throughput Planning: Model and plan DAQ capacity (stations, operators, uptime) to meet evolving data demands, balancing speed, cost, and quality.
- Quality & Data Integrity Oversight: Partner with engineering and data teams to define and enforce data quality standards, ensuring consistency and usability for downstream model training.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive improvements in system reliability, utilization, and efficiency through instrumentation, feedback loops, and process optimization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management, systems engineering, or operations in hardware, robotics, or infrastructure-heavy environments
- Strong systems-level thinking across hardware, software, and operational workflows
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs with high ambiguity
- Experience scaling physical systems (labs, factories, robotics fleets, or test infrastructure)
- Comfortable working close to hardware and debugging real-world system issues
- Strong analytical skills; able to model capacity, throughput, and system performance
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical program managementsystems engineeringdata acquisition (DAQ)capacity planningthroughput modelingdata quality standardsprocess optimizationroboticshardware debuggingexperimental workflows
Soft Skills
cross-functional leadershipanalytical skillscommunication skillsrisk managementsystem-level thinkingstakeholder alignmentproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementoperational prioritizationexecution planning