Foundry Robotics
Manufacturing
StrategicProjectsLead
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“Strategic Projects Lead at Foundry Robotics. Skills: Strategic Projects Lead, data collection programs, QA systems, SQL. The Strategic Projects Lead will architect and implement data collection programs for AI-native robotics manufacturing, defining data capture requirements, building QA systems, and managing the end-to-end rig fleet. This role involves defining success criteria, authoring SOPs, overseeing new task ramp-up, and performing post-capture QA and pre-delivery validation to ensure rig”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive rapid build-test-learn cycles to deliver a dataset that is both rigorous and scalable. Define and report against program-level OKRs for usable hours delivered, mix accuracy, and SLA attainment. Build the commercial engine that brings AI-driven manufacturing to every industrial and energy customer in America.
Industry & Context.
root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Requires 3-5 years as a PM or TPM with exposure to hardware, data pipelines, or physical workflows. Must have proven ability to build data collection or technical operations programs from the ground up, be comfortable owning task specs, QA programs, and standardization, and be equally effective at a desk and on the floor. Proficiency in SQL or Python for data pulling and dashboard building is essential, along with a track record of tracking and improving program metrics.
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, and familiarity with computer vision, sensor calibration, or robotics data pipelines are preferred.
What You'll Do.
The Strategic Projects Lead will architect and implement data collection programs for AI-native robotics manufacturing, defining data capture requirements, building QA systems, and managing the end-to-end rig fleet.
This role involves defining success criteria, authoring SOPs, overseeing new task ramp-up, and performing post-capture QA and pre-delivery validation to ensure rigorous and scalable datasets.
The lead will also track data diversity, report on program metrics, manage task spec versioning, and ensure data governance and compliance for frontier lab partners.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partners closely with the Operations Manager, Robotics Data, and provides technical input in a cross-functional environment with researchers and engineers. Considers downstream impacts on operators, model teams, and infrastructure when making program decisions.
Communication Scope
stakeholder update; technical input
Process & Methodology
OKRs
Full Job Description
ABOUT US Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. Basically, we’re building robots that build robots. We are reimagining manufacturing through advanced robotics. Our mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer. We aim to empower manufacturers with intelligent, efficient, and adaptable robotic systems that redefine productivity and quality. THE ROLE This role is for a Strategic Project Lead who thrives on turning model team requirements into production data, equally comfortable architecting QA systems from first principles and calibrating a rig on the floor. You will define what gets captured, how it lands, and whether it is usable, from early task spec through pre-delivery validation. You will stand up the data collection program from scratch and drive rapid build-test-learn cycles to deliver a dataset that is both rigorous and scalable. You will be the day-to-day interface with our model team and the frontier labs we deliver to, and the source of truth for hours collected, hours delivered, and hours usable. You will partner closely with the Operations Manager, Robotics Data, who owns the workforce, floor execution, and daily fleet readiness. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Manage the rig fleet end-to-end (UMI grippers, GoPros, VR headsets and controllers), including procurement, lifecycle, asset tracking, spares, and vendor relationships - Own rig calibration cadence and drift detection, including GoPro intrinsics, fisheye calibration, UMI gripper width drift, and per-operator VR eye-tracking calibration - Define success criteria with the model team, translating high-level data needs into rejection rules an assembler can apply consistently - Author SOPs and hand them to the Operations Manager for floor execution - Own new task ram
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