Robot Operator Lead

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Weekend work

Required From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Early From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Robot Operator Lead Palo Alto, California, United States Mind Robotics is building the operational backbone behind general-purpose industrial robots - the data, the procedures, and the people who teach machines how to move through the real world. Our operators are the human side of that loop: they pilot robots, generate the demonstration data that trains our models, and surface the edge cases the AI team needs to see. We're hiring several Teleoperations Leads to drive that function end-to-end. This is a hands-on lead role, not a desk job. You'll spend a meaningful share of your week teleoperating robots, running collection sessions, and working through new tasks yourself before anyone else does. Then you'll turn what you learned into SOPs, train the operators behind you, and raise the bar on data quality across the team. Responsibilities Operate. You'll pilot our robots through new and existing behaviors - household manipulation, commercial workflows, dexterous tasks, recovery maneuvers. You're the person who figures out how a new task should be performed before it's written down. Write the playbook. Every recurring task, bring-up procedure, shutdown sequence, safety check, and data-collection protocol becomes an SOP under your ownership. You'll define what "good" looks like - pose conventions, framing, retry behavior, when to abort a take - and keep those documents alive as the platform evolves. Train the team. You'll onboard new operators, run shadowing sessions, certify them on each task class, and run periodic calibration reviews to catch drift. When a new behavior comes online, you're

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