Head of Pilot Operations

This role leads the whole operation of remote robot pilots, taking it from dozens of people to hundreds. It covers training and scoring, hiring forecasts, readiness for each new customer site, and managing outside contractors alongside a growing in-house team. A strong candidate has scaled a large, quality-measured operations team in robotics, self-driving, or data labeling, and is comfortable doing the work by hand before delegating it.

How it fits the AI era

Pilots do the work now, steer robots through tasks, and in doing so produce the data that teaches the robots to do more on their own. As AI policies take over parts of the job, the work shifts toward watching how those policies perform and deciding where they are ready for each customer. Judgment about quality, trust with customers, and leading people through changing responsibilities stay human.

How it builds AI experience

This role sits close to how a robotics company turns real warehouse work into training data and then rolls out the resulting AI. Someone here would learn how data quality affects model performance and how to phase in AI policies site by site while holding performance steady. Anyone building toward it can study data labeling quality systems and fleet monitoring, and work with research teams on feedback loops.

Worth showing

• Scaling quality-measured ops teams
• Vendor management and SLAs
• Hiring and staffing forecasts
• Data quality for AI
• Building training and certification programs

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About Ultra

Ultra makes OP1, a multi-purpose AI robot for industrial warehouse work, per the company.