Prop Team Shift Lead

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing learning algorithms to create a model that will control any robot to do any task.

"Props" are the physical objects that robots interact with – the items a robot manipulates, or that sit in the background of a scene – during data collection and research work. The Prop Team keeps the right objects staged, tracked, and available so that collection can run smoothly. This role leads the team's hourly staff and manages the flow of incoming prop requests across the team's areas of work, making sure each request is fulfilled reliably.

• Experience managing, scheduling, and motivating an hourly, shift-based workforce (people-management experience strongly preferred).

• A responsible, detail-oriented, organized, and high-ownership approach; comfortable operating against standard operating procedures that are still being iterated on.

• Clear communication skills, including the ability to work with researchers and the operations team when there are questions about the process.

• Comfort with directing work and managing people as the primary job, stepping into hands-on tasks only as needed.

• For an otherwise strong candidate without formal people-management experience, we would want an explicit development plan in place before hiring, so the expectations of the role are clear and the person is set up to grow into them.

• Experience with inventory management, staging/logistics, or physical operations.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.