--- title: 'Product Operations at Sunday Robotics' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-operations-sunday-robotics-redwood-city-z7rzpxpy3vpr' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Product Operations at Sunday Robotics - **Company:** Sunday Robotics - **Location:** Redwood City, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sunday/adcdd154-4755-49fc-afbb-4e0a20f66fa0 ## Job description Join Us in Building the Future of Home Robotics At Sunday, we're developing personal robots to reclaim the hours lost to repetitive tasks. We're focused on an ambitious goal to make generalized robots broadly accessible, enabling households to take back quality time. We have spent the last 18 months building a talented team, securing capital, and validating our technology. We are now seeking passionate individuals to join us in the next phase of our growth. If you are ready to apply your skills to the forefront of robotics innovation, we’d love to hear from you. What to Expect We're looking for our first Product Operations hire to own all product-related logistics for beta deployments, evaluation set build-outs, and everything in between. This role sits at the intersection of design, ML, product, hardware, and operations. Because we're building a physical product, our physical operations need to scale directly with demand. As we move into beta and beyond, you'll be the person who makes sure robots, data, and demos get where they need to be — on time and in working order. This role is especially important as we ramp our upcoming beta: you'll define how Sunday deploys, services, and learns from robots in the real world. ## What You'll Do - Build out physical environments: Set up physical spaces for our in-house Memo developers to collect diverse data, and construct investor demo sets and evaluation sets for the ML team. - Ship robots on time: Work closely with product, manufacturing, and hardware teams to keep production and deployment on schedule. - Own deployment end to end: Handle the delivery, installation, and servicing of deployed robots from start to finish. - Manage vendors and budgets: Source and negotiate with vendors, manage operational budgets, and keep costs and timelines under control. ## What You'll Bring - Experience in operations, ideally within the hardware space - Experience with negotiations, budgeting, and operations - A track record of collaborating closely with product and operations teams to deliver on tight timelines - Comfort working in early-stage product environments where requirements evolve quickly - A bias toward agentic, self-directed work — you don't wait to be told what to do ## Nice to Have - Experience standing up operations for a physical product at an early-stage company (0→1) - Experience coordinating deployments or field servicing for hardware - Familiarity with data collection or evaluation workflows for ML - Strong interest in robotics or smart home products and systems ## What You're Not - Someone who prefers well-defined processes over building them from scratch - Looking for a role where requirements are fully scoped before work begins - Most effective when working in a narrow operational lane rather than owning logistics end to end At Sunday Robotics, we’re building technology shaped by real people — curious, creative, and diverse. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. Studies show that women and underrepresented groups often hold back unless they meet 100% of the criteria — we don’t want that to be the reason we miss out on great talent. ## About Sunday Robotics ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sunday Robotics builds Memo, an autonomous home robot that learns household chores through a proprietary Skill Capture Glove™ and data collected from real homes. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, USA - **Founded**: 2024 (founder dropped out of Stanford CS PhD in 2024 to start the company) - **Founders**: Tony Zhao ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Consumer robotics, home automation, artificial intelligence - **Target customers**: B2C – households (homeowners and families) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Giving people their time back for the things that matter most" by automating repetitive household chores. ## Products & Services - **Memo (Autonomous Home Robot)**: A wheeled, single-armed robot designed to perform household tasks such as loading the dishwasher, folding socks, pulling espresso shots, and clearing tables. It uses AI trained on data from hundreds of real homes and features passive stability, compliant control, and a soft silicone shell for safety. - **Skill Capture Glove™**: A low-cost (~$400) wearable glove that mirrors Memo’s kinematics. A distributed network of “Memory Developers” (over 2,000 gloves shipped) record themselves performing tasks in their own homes, generating training data that enables Memo to learn new skills without human tele-operation. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.15 billion (as of March 2026, Series B round) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $165 million (Series B, oversubscribed) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Coatue (lead, with Thomas Laffont joining the board), Bain Capital Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Tiger Global, Benchmark, Conviction, Xtal Ventures - **Growth Signals**: Engineering team grew 3x, Research 4x, Data Operations 5x ahead of the Series B. Beta program launching in late 2026 with “Founding Families.” Memo already learns multiple skills in parallel (dishes, coffee, laundry). Public deployment is the stated focus, moving beyond demos. ## Competitive Advantages - **Unmatched iteration speed**: The company can move from in-the-wild data collection to model training and real-world evaluation faster than competitors. - **Full-stack ownership**: Controls the entire stack – from the Skill Capture Glove and data collection pipeline to hardware design, manufacturing, and AI models. - **Data moat**: Proprietary data from thousands of glove recordings and the robot fleet creates a flywheel that improves over time, while also benefiting from public datasets. - **Safety-first design**: Memo has passive stability (won’t fall when power is cut), compliant control (limbs can be pushed safely), and a soft, cleanable silicone shell – making it safe for homes with children and pets. ## Strategic Focus - **Real-world deployment over demos**: The Series B announcement explicitly states “No More Demos” – the company is shifting entirely to shipping Memo to households via a beta program in 2026. - **Scaling skills**: Continuously expanding Memo’s Skill Library (new skills every month) and improving generalization so the robot works in homes it has never seen. - **Manufacturing cost reduction**: Current hand-built cost is ~$20,000; target retail price will be at least 50% lower after large-scale manufacturing. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven culture**: The team is united by the goal of giving people back their time through helpful robotics. Core value: persistence. - **Small, ambitious team**: 30+ engineers, designers, and researchers in Silicon Valley – offering high ownership and impact. - **Cutting-edge robotics & AI**: Work on the full stack – from hardware mechanical design to imitation learning and world models. Founders have deep academic roots (ALOHA project, Stanford). - **Open roles**: Hiring across Robotics, Hardware, Software, ML & Robotics Infra, Data Operations, and Product. Includes remote Memory Developer positions. - **Office location**: Redwood City, CA (likely hybrid/on-site for most technical roles). ## Sources 1. [sunday.ai](https://www.sunday.ai/) 2. [sunday.ai/company](https://www.sunday.ai/company) 3. [sunday.ai/careers](https://www.sunday.ai/careers) 4. [sunday.ai/journal/series-b](https://www.sunday.ai/journal/series-b) 5. 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