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Annotations Portfolio Lead

PhysicalintelligenceSan Francisco🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 4, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI in the physical world by leading critical annotation programs, fostering significant career growth and skill development. You'll thrive here if you possess strong problem-solving abilities and a passion for driving operational excellence within a reputable, innovative company. Apply today to make a tangible impact on cutting-edge AI development.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Location
San Francisco, United States
Posted
11 hours ago
RoboticsConcreteContinuous Improvement

Job Description

Who We Are

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.

The Team

High-quality data is the fuel for our work. The Annotations team produces high-quality data labels to support model development.

This role is a hands-on owner for a portfolio of annotation programs: partnering with researchers to understand what data they need and why, translating that into concrete requirements and rubrics, and running the operation that delivers the data. This person will also be expected to drive continuous improvement across multiple surfaces to mature the annotations function and balance strategic problem solving with tactical execution.

In this role you will

  • Own end-to-end performance for a portfolio of annotation programs, driving quality, speed, and efficiency

  • Partner with researchers to define and refine requirements

  • Drive step-function continuous improvement in our operations, identifying issues and building scalable solutions

  • Foster clarity, collaboration, and alignment across both technical and nontechnical stakeholders, including vendor partners, researchers, operations

What we hope you'll bring

  • 5+ years of experience in program management, operations, technical project management, consulting, startup operations, or similar roles

  • Strong problem solving and systems thinking; ability to identify points of leverage in a constantly-evolving system and diagnose problems with incomplete information

  • Intuition for data quality and research needs, grounded in understanding of model training and evaluation

  • Stellar communication and ability to clarify nuance, structure complex information in digestible ways, and work with remote, ESL audiences

  • Organizational skills to bring structure to chaos and balance needs across multiple programs

Bonus points

  • Experience with data annotations for ML/AI, having seen versions of this problem before

  • Experience with robotics, egocentric video, or other multimodal sensor data

  • Experience with using coding agents to fill gaps in tooling / infra