Operations Manager, Data Aquisition

Details

Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. The team works across the full model and systems stack, integrating hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors and to blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems.

This role is a single-threaded owner for the system that enables robotics data collection across OpenAI's robotics program. The system spans robotic stations, a large managed workforce, and facilities while engineering and research teams evolve the platforms and workflows running on top. The role requires alignment across research, engineering, operations, and external partners to ensure reliable, scalable data collection.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end DAQ operating system that enables robotics data collection across stations, workforce, and facilities
• Ensure robotics fleet, station software, workforce execution, and infrastructure operate as a single, reliable system
• Set operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and escalation paths to keep execution unblocked
• Drive step-function improvements in throughput, reliability, and data quality
• Act as the single point of operational alignment across robotics research, engineering, and operations
• Clarify priorities, readiness, and constraints to keep deployments moving
• Ensure new platforms, workflows, and capabilities land cleanly into operations and push operational feedback upstream to shape engineering and research decisions
• Own execution of the managed workforce model through a services partner; set expectations, metrics, and escalation paths with vendor leadership
• Ensure workforce readiness keeps pace with changing station workflows and programs and hold partners accountable to performance, throughput, and quality outcomes
• Coordinate across fleet reliability, station software, and operational infrastructure; own readiness of materials, consumables, and station inputs required for continuous execution
• Surface issues early, drive fast resolution, and prevent recurrence through system fixes
• Own expansion of DAQ operations, define and enforce repeatable operating standards across sites, and build site leadership structure and coordination mechanisms that scale with growth
• Create clarity across senior stakeholders in ambiguous environments; make tradeoffs explicit and drive decisions to keep execution moving

Requirements / Candidate Profile

• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional systems spanning engineering, operations, and external partners
• Experience operating as a single-threaded owner who drives alignment and execution in ambiguous environments
• Ability to impose structure, operating cadence, and accountability on evolving systems
• Comfortable working with senior technical stakeholders and frontline operational teams
• Strong bias for action, speed, and clarity over process for its own sake
• Focus on owning system-level outcomes rather than only functional pieces

Benefits

• Base pay range: $251,000 – $285,000 (range may vary by location, experience, and other factors)
• Offers equity and may include performance-related bonuses for eligible employees
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees and paid time off for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid company office closures
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company emphasizes safety and inclusion and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law.