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Director of Engineering, Physical AI

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $302,400–$302,400🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering organization to own and execute the Physical AI Data Engine platform, solving data bottlenecks for robotics research and real-world deployment.

Role type

Director of Engineering (Physical AI)

Builds

Production-grade data infrastructure, teleoperation systems, ML training pipelines, and model evaluation frameworks for robotics workloads.

Domain

Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Technical vision setting, organizational design, talent strategy, cross-functional alignment, hardware-software system leadership, ML lifecycle ownership, distributed systems architecture, cloud infrastructure management, workflow orchestration

Preferred skills

Teleoperation systems experience, robotic hardware platform expertise, imitation learning, sensor fusion, SLAM, 3D data processing, global data collection scaling

Technologies

Python, C++, TypeScript, Node, AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal, Airflow

Responsibilities

Set technical vision across data collection, teleoperation, and ML pipelines; lead multidisciplinary engineering teams; maintain technical and operational excellence; drive cross-functional alignment on platform architecture; collaborate with researchers and clients on scalable data infrastructure

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical oversight

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