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Our robots automate mission-critical warehouse labor end-to-end, starting with e-commerce order packaging. We deploy fast, learn from real production data, and iterate aggressively. We already have a quickly growing number of revenue-generating robots operating in U.S. warehouses, and are now scaling towards thousands of deployments over the next few years. Our mission is simple: build the world's most useful and deployable robot.\nWARNING: Robotics is not for the faint of heart. There are no silver bullets here. It is tiresome, unglamorous, and at times brutal work. The only way out is through, and the only way through is treacherous and unknown. Success will require teamwork - so we are building a world-class team to tackle some of the most exciting problems out there. We hope you join us.\nAbout the role\nYou will own the programs that turn research priorities into usable robotics datasets, working with ML researchers, robotics engineers, data engineers, and operations teams to determine what data we need, translate those requirements into collection and annotation programs, and ensure the resulting datasets are delivered with the required quality, coverage, and timing. This is a technically demanding program role. You will not directly build every tool or run every collection shift, but you will understand the complete data lifecycle and drive coordinated execution across the teams responsible for it.\nWhat you’ll do\nOperationalize the execution of the collection, annotation, validation, and management of our data\nTranslate model-training and evaluation priorities into concrete data requirements, task definitions, collection plans, and acceptance criteria.\nOwn the roadmap and delivery plan for major robotics data programs.\nContinually improve our process around collecting data and running evals\nBuild internal tools and software to streamline and make our process more efficient\nWho You Are\nYou have significant experience in technical program management, ML operations, robotics, autonomy, data platforms, or a related technical field.\nYou have managed complex programs spanning research, software, hardware, and operations.\nYou understand the fundamentals of ML training data, evaluation, dataset quality, and experimentation.\nYou communicate clearly in technical specifications, program reviews, and executive updates.\nYou thrive in an environment where requirements and priorities change quickly.\nYou are comfortable getting your hands dirty, whether that means writing some scrappy code or hopping on a flight to get things done\nBonus Points\nExperience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, embodied AI, or multimodal ML.\nExperience with video, sensor, trajectory, or teleoperation datasets.\nFamiliarity with SQL, Python, or direct dataset analysis.\nExperience designing annotation ontologies or evaluation datasets.\nExperience coordinating external data vendors or collection partners.\nExpected Compensation\n$150,000 - $250,000/annual salary + equity + benefits\nThis compensation range may be inclusive of several career levels at Ultra and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications. 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