Field Engineer, Data Collection Operations
San Francisco, CAFull-time$100–150K/yrSeen todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Preload builds wearable multimodal systems that capture human interaction data for robotics training. The Field Engineer will run partner data collection operations, using the company’s hardware to support reliable, high-volume collection. The role includes on-site sessions, sensor setup and troubleshooting, coordinating data collectors, monitoring data quality, and sharing field insights with hardware and software teams. The team is early-stage and based in person in San Francisco.
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About Preload Preload builds the data layer for physical AI. Robots learn mostly from video, but human interaction is much richer: touch, force, and muscle activity. We build a wearable multimodal stack (egocentric video, tactile gloves, EMG) to capture how people actually interact with the physical world, and turn it into datasets robotics teams can train on. We're a YC (F26) team of PhD founders from Johns Hopkins and Caltech with backgrounds at Neuralink, Paradromics, and other neurotech companies. The role You'll run data collection in the field with our partners, turning our hardware into a reliable, high-volume data operation. What you'll do
- Run on-site data collection sessions with partners and participants
- Set up, calibrate, maintain, and troubleshoot wearable sensors
- Recruit, onboard, and coordinate data collectors
- Track throughput and data quality; build playbooks to scale collection
- Feed field insights back to hardware and software teams
What we're looking for
- 1+ years in field operations, technical support, research operations, or similar
- Hands-on and comfortable troubleshooting hardware and software on the fly
- Highly organized; good at running repeatable processes with many people
- Experience with research studies, data labeling ops, or robotics data collection is a plus
- Willing to travel to partner sites
Why join Early, in-person team in San Francisco. You'll design how we collect data at scale.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,172 open Field Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$100–150K/yr
- California median$113–155K/yr53 salary ranges
- US median$109–151K/yr331 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $125K, is 8% below the California median midpoint ($136K) — in the middle half of Field Operations salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 115 open Field Operations jobs in California and 1,172 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Field Operations postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 733 postings).
- Education
- 107 of the 1,172 open Field Operations jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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