Innodata Inc.
Innodata solves your toughest data engineering challenges using artificial intelligence and human expertise.
Robotics Project Lead – Data Collection
Location
California + 1 moreAll locations: California, New Jersey
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Bachelor Degree3 yrs expEnglishGo
Job Description
• Serve as the end‑to‑end owner for high‑impact robotics data collection projects, from initial scoping through launch, iteration, and scale
• Understand customer and internal model requirements and translate them into capture specs (modalities, environments, volumes, edge cases) that measurably improve model performance
• Build detailed project plans, timelines, and operational workflows to ensure high‑quality, efficient data collection across real‑world, lab, and simulated environments
• Stand up and refine pipeline infrastructure and processes with partner engineering teams so that data flows cleanly into annotation, training, and evaluation
• Train, coach, and functionally lead distributed teams of operators, moderators, contributors, collectors and site staff executing collection campaigns
• Build dashboards, analytics, and regular reports to guide data‑driven decisions on coverage, quality, throughput, and unit economics
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Finance, and Go‑to‑Market to design and deliver solutions that drive both technical outcomes (better VLAs/VLMs, policies, world models) and business outcomes (revenue, margins, strategic wins)
• Provide clear, regular progress updates and risk/mitigation plans to leadership and other senior stakeholders
• Contribute as a thought leader in Robotics & Physical AI by publishing blogs, talks, internal write‑ups, or open‑source artifacts that share learnings from our data, systems, and customer work.
Job Requirements
- A strong technical background plus a business‑oriented mindset (e.g., degree in engineering, computer science, or related field, and prior exposure to driving business outcomes with data/AI/robotics)
- 3+ years of experience leading project or program teams, developing operational processes, or launching new operations in a fast‑paced environment
- Excellent problem‑solving skills and comfort working through complex, ambiguous operational challenges; you can design creative solutions and then execute them
- Demonstrated entrepreneurial mindset—you enjoy building from zero to one, identifying issues early, and moving quickly to resolve them
- Comfort with AI tools to optimize and automate workflows.
- Hands‑on experience in Robotics, AI, and/or Computer Vision, especially in data‑heavy workflows
- Experience working with global or cross‑time‑zone teams.
Benefits
- Up to 20% travel as required
- Remote work options