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title: 'Data Collection Operator at Maven Robotics'
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# Data Collection Operator at Maven Robotics

- **Company:** Maven Robotics
- **Location:** San Francisco Bay Area, CA
- **Posted:** 2025-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/mavenrobotics/jobs/4893275008?gh_jid=4893275008

## Job description

## About Maven

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots, intelligent machines designed to operate safely and effectively across complex, real-world environments. We bring together cutting-edge AI, hardware, and software to build systems that can learn, adapt, and perform meaningful work in the physical world. Our team operates at the intersection of advanced research and real-world engineering, moving quickly from ideas to prototypes to deployed systems. We’re building an ambitious team of engineers, researchers, and operators who are excited to solve hard problems, move fast, and help define the future of intelligent robotics.

## About the Role

As a Data Collection Operator at Maven Robotics, you’ll operate robots using advanced data collection systems and play a hands-on role in developing cutting-edge AI-powered robotics. You’ll work closely with our robotics and AI teams to collect high-quality motion and behavioral data used to train robots to perform complex tasks in dynamic, real-world environments.

## What You'll Do

- Operate robots using advanced data collection systems
- Guide robots through designated motions, manipulation tasks, and workflows to collect high-quality demonstration data
- Upload, validate, and organize collected data used for training AI models
- Identify, troubleshoot, and report operational issues during data collection
- Follow robot bring-up, calibration, and shutdown procedures to ensure safe, reliable operations
- Collaborate closely with AI, perception, and controls engineers to refine teleoperation pipelines and improve robot behaviors
- Maintain a safe, efficient, and organized work environment throughout data collection and operations

## What We're Looking For

- Excellent physical coordination, spatial awareness, and attention to detail
- Ability to operate data collection equipment for extended periods while maintaining focus
- Comfortable standing, walking, and operating equipment for 8+ hours per day
- Quick learner who can efficiently master new physical tasks, tools, and workflows
- Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative, receptive to feedback, and excited about robotics, AI, and emerging technologies

## Nice to Have

- Experience with teleoperation systems, humanoid robots, or robotic manipulators
- Familiarity with VR interfaces, haptic devices, motion tracking, or robotic control systems
- Basic hardware and software troubleshooting skills during robot teleoperation
- Enthusiasm for developing and scaling next-generation robotic systems

## About Maven Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general-purpose AI robots, starting with an industrial robot that combines strength, dexterity, mobility, and reliable physical AI to unlock productivity across manufacturing and logistics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed round raised in September 2024 with 3 investors)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States (with presence in Germany)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Hamza Derbas (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering / Industrial Automation / AI Robotics
- **Target customers**: Large global manufacturing and logistics organizations, with a cost-efficient design that also makes automation accessible to businesses of every scale (SMB to Enterprise).
- **Mission**: "We believe the future of technology holds incredible promise, with many kinds of robots unlocking productivity, enhancing creativity, and improving life for humans everywhere. Our first step is to tackle real-world industry challenges, proving value and scalability to establish the foundation for a truly brighter future."

## Products & Services
- **General-purpose industrial robot (prototype)**: A hardware/software/AI system purpose-built for industry, combining strength, adaptive dexterity, fluid mobility, and the most reliable physical AI to work safely alongside people. Designed to be cost-efficient for businesses of all scales.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not publicly available (Seed round with 3 investors, September 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named in available sources; the company states they are "working with some of the largest global manufacturing and logistics organizations."
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 52.4% year-over-year to 28 employees (as of mid-2025) [linkedin.com]
  - High-profile talent sourcing: alumni from Apple (9), Tesla (1), Ford, Aptiv, Caterpillar, and others [linkedin.com]
  - Active hiring across 14+ roles as of July 2025: robotic AI, ML perception, manipulation, motion planning, embedded software, mechanical and electrical engineering, Data Collection Operator [mavenrobotics.ai]

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-principles, customer-focused approach** – the company prioritizes solving real industrial pain points before generalizing, ensuring near-term traction
- **Small, elite team** – composed of engineers and scientists with deep experience from top tech and robotics companies (Apple, Tesla, Ford, Intuitive Surgical, etc.)
- **Cost-efficiency** – the robot is designed to be affordable enough for SMBs, not just large enterprises, widening the addressable market
- **Full-stack robotics** – in-house capabilities in hardware design (actuators, mechanisms), embedded systems, AI/ML (perception, manipulation, foundation models), motion planning, and simulation

## Strategic Focus
- **Near-term**: Prove value and scalability in industrial manufacturing and logistics through customer deployments; ship the first generation robot
- **Long-term**: Use the industrial foundation to build general-purpose robots that can tackle diverse real-world challenges, ultimately "unlocking human potential through intelligent robotics"

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a small team of engineers and scientists with "bold ambition, relentless curiosity, and belief in unlocking human potential through intelligent robotics." Emphasis on inventing, creating, and innovating from Silicon Valley.
- **Work model**: On-site or in-office workspace at the Santa Clara, CA headquarters. BuiltIn lists offices as "In-Office or Remote" but also states employees work from physical offices; typical time on-site is not specified. The careers page implies hands-on hardware/software work that likely requires presence. [builtin.com]
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Deep technical challenges across AI, perception, controls, embedded, mechanical, and electrical engineering. The team includes world-class experts from Apple, Tesla, Ford, etc. Opportunities to shape a product from prototype to deployment. Open roles include robotic AI, ML engineering, motion planning, embedded software, and hardware engineering.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly growing startup (52% YoY headcount increase) with strong investor interest and a clear industrial go-to-market strategy.

## Sources
1. [mavenrobotics.ai](https://www.mavenrobotics.ai/)
2. [mavenrobotics.ai/join-us](https://www.mavenrobotics.ai/join-us)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/maven-robotics)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maven-robotics)
5. [craft.co](https://craft.co/maven-robotics)

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