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.
About Job
GENERAL SUMMARY
The Project Manager for Robotics Lab & Research keeps the Physical AI Center of Excellence (PACE) moving by tracking progress, surfacing blockers, and managing timeline and scope across new lab and research initiatives — teleoperation, data collection, annotation, and model evaluation for robotics. This role is the single source of truth for where each initiative stands: what is on track, what is at risk, and what needs a decision. It does not own the technical work; it owns visibility, coordination, and accountability across a multi-geography, multi-discipline team (hardware, simulation, data pipeline, and real-world evaluation), ensuring initiatives are scoped clearly, tracked consistently, and delivered on time. Extensive project management experience in a technical, hardware, or research environment is required.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Track progress on all new robotics lab and research initiatives, maintaining a live view of status, milestones, and completion against plan.
- Define and manage scope for each initiative — capture goals, deliverables, and boundaries up front, and control scope changes as work evolves.
- Build and maintain timelines and roadmaps across concurrent initiatives; keep target dates realistic and current.
- Identify, log, and highlight blockers early — technical, hardware/procurement, staffing, or dependency-related — and drive them to resolution or escalation.
- Run a regular reporting and status cadence (weekly updates, dashboards, standups) so leadership and contributors always know where things stand.
- Coordinate across hardware, software/AI, annotation, and evaluation teams to keep initiatives aligned and hand-offs clean.
- Flag timeline slips, scope creep, and resource gaps to the practice owner and stakeholders, with clear options and recommended next steps.
- Track hardware procurement, lab equipment, and vendor timelines (including cross-border shipping, customs, and tariff considerations) as initiative dependencies.
- Maintain a risk and dependency register; keep mitigation actions assigned and moving.
- Ensure initiatives follow the lab's data and delivery conventions (e.g. brs-ctrl, HDF5 / LeRobot) so outputs are usable downstream.
- Drive initiative closure — confirm deliverables met scope, capture documentation, and hand off to research and delivery teams.
- Continuously improve how initiatives are scoped, tracked, and reported across the lab and its regional sites.
- Additional duties as required.
EDUCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
- College/University degree — BA/BS in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Business, or a related technical field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in project or program management roles, ideally in robotics, hardware, R&D, or industrial automation.
- Strong hands-on experience with tracking and reporting tools (e.g. project trackers, roadmaps, dashboards) and Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Working knowledge of PowerBI and internet-based platforms for status reporting and tracking.
- Familiarity with robotics/AI development workflows — hardware-software integration, teleoperation, data collection, simulation, or model evaluation — enough to understand dependencies and blockers.
- Advanced certification (PMP, PgMP) and business acumen preferred.
Skills Required
- BA/BS in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Business, or related technical field
- Minimum 5 years of project or program management experience, ideally in robotics, hardware, R&D, or industrial automation
- Extensive project management experience in technical, hardware, or research environments
- Hands-on experience with tracking and reporting tools (project trackers, roadmaps, dashboards) and Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Working knowledge of PowerBI and internet-based status reporting/tracking platforms
- Familiarity with robotics/AI development workflows (hardware-software integration, teleoperation, data collection, simulation, model evaluation)
- Advanced certification (PMP, PgMP) and strong business acumen
Centific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Centific and has not been reviewed or approved by Centific.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests core medical, dental, and vision coverage is comprehensive, with mental‑health support included. U.S. offerings also include HSA/FSA and are described as solid insurance options.
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Flexible Benefits — Feedback suggests flexible hours and work‑from‑anywhere options are widely promoted, with flexible PTO available in some contexts. Learning stipends and development programs add adaptable elements to the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Feedback suggests paid parental leave is explicitly available to all parents. This positions family leave as an accessible component of the overall package.
Centific Insights
What We Do
Zero distance innovation for GenAI creators and industries Expertly engineering platforms and curating multimodal, multilingual data, we empower the ‘Magnificent Seven’ and enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment We a team of over 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We bring platforms, partners and 1.8 million vertical domain experts to create high-quality pre-trained datasets, fine-tuned industry-specific LLMs, and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. These innovations can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring GenAI solutions to market 50% faster in 230 locales.
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