# Field Engineer, Data Collection Operations

**Company:** [Preload](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-companies/preload)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Work mode:** On-site
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 100K–150K/yr
**Category:** Engineering
**Department:** Operations
**Listed:** 2026-11-10

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/field-engineer-data-collection-operations-121723)

## What you'll do

- Run on-site data collection sessions with partners
- Set up, calibrate, and troubleshoot wearable sensors
- Recruit, onboard, and coordinate data collectors
- Track throughput and data quality; build playbooks
- Feed field insights to hardware and software teams

## What you need

- 1+ yrs in field operations or technical support
- Hands-on hardware and software troubleshooting
- Willing to travel to partner sites
- Highly organized; running repeatable processes with many people
- Experience with research studies or data labeling ops

## 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 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.

## Other open roles at Preload

- [Summer 2027 Intern (Any Team)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/summer-2027-intern-any-team-121727) — San Francisco, CA
- [Mechanical / Soft-Goods Designer (Wearables)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/mechanical-soft-goods-designer-wearables-121725) — San Francisco, CA
- [Pitch Your Own Role](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/pitch-your-own-role-121724) — San Francisco, CA
- [Software Engineer, Data Platform](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/software-engineer-data-platform-121721) — San Francisco, CA
- [Sensor Engineer (Wearables)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/sensor-engineer-wearables-121720) — San Francisco, CA

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