Head of Physical AI Programs

About Centific

Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets—to create contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets;

fine-tuned, industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our zero-distance innovation™ solutions for GenAI can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50% faster. Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets.

Location Bay Area, California or Redmond, Washington

Centific is a leading AI Data and Engineering company helping the world’s largest AI innovators build, train, validate, and deploy next-generation AI systems. Through our global platform, expert workforce, and AI Data Foundry (AIDF), we support the development of foundation models, agentic AI systems, multimodal AI, and Physical AI solutions. As Physical AI becomes the next frontier of artificial intelligence, Centific is investing in building the industry’s most comprehensive platform and services ecosystem for robotics, embodied AI, autonomous systems, simulation, reinforcement learning, synthetic data, and real-world data operations.

We are seeking a visionary and execution-oriented Head of Physical AI Programs to lead the development and scaling of Centific’s Physical AI practice. This executive will be responsible for defining strategy, building operational capabilities, establishing strategic partnerships, and delivering large-scale Physical AI programs for leading AI labs, robotics companies, autonomous systems providers, and enterprise customers. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in robotics, embodied AI, autonomous systems, simulation, reinforcement learning, and large-scale program execution with a strong understanding of how AI data, human intelligence, and operational excellence come together to accelerate Physical AI development.

This role will serve as the executive leader responsible for transforming Physical AI from an emerging capability into a strategic growth engine for Centific.

• Physical AI Strategy & Practice Leadership
• Define and execute Centific’s Physical AI vision, roadmap, and growth strategy.
• Build a differentiated Physical AI services and platform offering spanning data, simulation, training, validation, benchmarking, and reinforcement learning.
• Establish Centers of Excellence focused on robotics, autonomous systems, humanoids, industrial automation, warehouse robotics, and embodied AI.
• Identify emerging market opportunities and translate them into scalable business offerings.
• Program Leadership & Delivery
• Lead strategic customer engagements from concept through execution.
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex Physical AI programs involving robotics data collection, simulation, teleoperations, RLHF, RLAIF, benchmarking, and validation.
• Establish delivery frameworks, operating models, quality standards, and program governance mechanisms.
• Drive operational excellence across globally distributed teams.
• Ecosystem & Partnerships
• Develop strategic relationships with robotics companies, AI labs, autonomous systems providers, universities, and technology partners.
• Collaborate with industry leaders across robotics, simulation, synthetic data, and AI infrastructure ecosystems.
• Represent Centific at industry events, conferences, customer briefings, and executive forums.
• Product & Platform…