Field Engineer, Surgical Data Collection
San Francisco, CAFull-time$100–150K/yrSeen todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Preload is building a multimodal wearable data platform to capture human interaction for robotics training. The Field Engineer will run surgical data collection with surgeons and clinical partners, using the company’s sensor stack in surgical and simulation environments. The role is an early, in-person position in San Francisco, with travel to partner sites.
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Full job description
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 our surgical data collection: working with surgeons and clinical partners to capture expert surgical skill with our sensor stack. What you'll do
- Plan and run data collection sessions with surgeons and clinical partners
- Set up, calibrate, and troubleshoot sensors in surgical and simulation environments
- Ensure data quality, protocol compliance, and proper documentation
- Coordinate with partner sites on scheduling, approvals, and logistics
- Feed field insights back to hardware and software teams
What we're looking for
- 1+ years in a clinical, surgical, medical device, or clinical research setting
- Comfortable in ORs or surgical training environments
- Hands-on with technical equipment and troubleshooting on the fly
- Familiarity with IRB processes and research protocols is a plus
- Background in BME, clinical engineering, or as a surgical tech or clinical specialist is a plus
Why join Early, in-person team in San Francisco, with travel to partner sites. You'll build our surgical data program from the ground up.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,094 open Field Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$100–150K/yr
- California median$95–120K/yr123 salary ranges
- US median$85–115K/yr992 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $125K, is 14% above the California median midpoint ($110K) — in the middle half of Field Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 167 open Field Engineer jobs in California and 2,094 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kiewit34 open
- Shimmick15 open
- Tutor Perini11 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Field Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 1,299 postings).
- Education
- 880 of the 2,094 open Field Engineer jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 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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