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Our flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate thoughtfully with people, starting with critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond.\nWe operate at the cutting edge of Applied AI, applying our expertise across the full robotics stack to solve some of society's most important problems. You will join a team dedicated to bringing Apollo to market at scale, tackling the complex challenges like safety, commercialization, and mass production to change the world for the better.\nJOB SUMMARY\nYou will focus on driving the product vision, ensuring seamless execution across the complex hardware/software divide, and translating market demands into user oriented, executable product roadmaps.\nYou will own the teleoperation product: a first-rate interface for teleoperated data collection, serving both our data collection environment and customers who want to improve fleet performance. You will draw on virtual reality / XR experience and a human factors background to create interfaces genuinely suited to the operators who use them, maximizing data throughput and quality while keeping operators effective, comfortable, and safe.\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES\nOwn and maintain the Teleoperation roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities across the operator interface, data collection workflows, and customer fine-tuning workflows.\nDefine requirements for the teleoperation interface - VR/XR rigs, control mappings, haptic and visual feedback, and situational-awareness displays - in partnership with design and engineering.\nApply human factors rigor to the operator experience: cognitive load, fatigue, ergonomics, latency tolerance, embodiment mismatch, motion sickness, learnability, and time-to-proficiency.\nPartner with Data Collection operations to maximize teleoperated data collection throughput and quality.\nConnect operator experience to training outcomes: define the metrics that tie interface quality to the quality of demonstrations used for robot learning.\nDefine and own the customer-facing fine-tuning workflow for deployed robots, including permissioning, safety controls, and operation over real-world networks.\nDefine product features/enhancements and communicate requirements to engineering teams via clearly written requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.\nPrioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs, and ensure product development efforts align with real-world economic value for customers.\nPartner with UX, UX Research, and industrial design to validate and refine operator interfaces before deployment.\nSynthesize insights from operator feedback, usage data, customer meetings, and data-quality metrics into a strategy that delivers business objectives.\nSKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS\nComplex real-time operator interface or HMI experience under latency/safety constraints, or immersive interface products \nBackground in human factors, HCI, or applied ergonomics - you understand how to design interfaces suited to operators, and how to measure operator performance and comfort.\nExperience with teleoperation or remote operation of physical systems (robots, vehicles, drones, or similar).\nStrong analytical skills with experience in performance tracking and data-driven decision-making.\nExcellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact.\nYou make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.\nYou prioritize operator and user feedback, promoting and advocating for that voice to internal teams.\nNICE TO HAVE\nFamiliarity with robot learning data pipelines - imitation learning, demonstration quality, and what makes teleoperated data useful for training.\nExperience working with customers in light and heavy duty industrial environments.\nExperience deploying products into industrial or warehouse environments.\nEDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE\nAt least 7 years of experience in product management.Bachelor’s in HCI or Engineering preferred\n\nExperience in human factors, HCI, cognitive science, or a related field.\nExperience with motion capture, hand tracking, or haptic input devices.\nExperience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles.\nPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS\nProlonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer\nMust be able to lift 15 pounds at times\nVision to read printed materials and a computer screen\nHearing and speech to communicate\nAbility to wear and operate VR/XR headsets and teleoperation rigs for evaluation purposes\n*This is a direct hire. 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