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Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI. The company designs and operates global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems.
You will lead scientific programmes that produce high-quality data for AI and robotics. This is a hands-on strategy and operations role where you'll work across scientific partnerships, programme development, and laboratory operations, taking initiatives from initial brief through launch and ongoing delivery.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing scientific programmes by translating commercial and scientific objectives into practical plans, milestones, and operating requirements
- Building and managing partnerships with scientific organisations, coordinating agreements, onboarding, and managing ongoing performance
- Launching new initiatives by establishing workflows, coordinating equipment and resources, training teams, and resolving readiness gaps
- Owning operating performance including quality, throughput, schedules, and cost; identifying bottlenecks and improving programme operations
- Coordinating people and resources across partner teams, vendors, and logistics across multiple locations
- Making informed operating decisions by evaluating opportunities, testing assumptions, and using delivery evidence to decide what to improve, expand, or stop
You should be comfortable shaping plans, making decisions with incomplete information, and doing the work needed to deliver results.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Scientific fluency from laboratory experience or sustained work with experimental scientists
- Track record of launching and running programmes or operations with responsibility for delivery, quality, and cost
- Experience managing external partnerships and coordinating people, vendors, and operational resources
- Evidence of prioritizing work, evaluating tradeoffs, and making sound decisions under uncertainty
- Willingness and ability to execute directly, including resolving practical problems alongside coordinating others
PREFERRED:
- Scientific or laboratory operations, research partnerships, or technical special projects experience
- Founder or early startup experience involving substantial operating responsibility
- Building and improving operations across multiple sites or international partner teams
