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Figure AI Seeks Night-Shift Coordinator to Oversee Humanoid Robots

The overnight hire shows that early commercial robot deployments still depend on hands-on human supervision during real-world testing.

Figure AI advertised a $40–$45-an-hour job that involved supervising humanoid robots during overnight shifts.
Joel Carrasco performs maintenance on humanoid robot Figure 01 at Figure AI's test facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. Figure plans to start with a relatively simple use case, such as in a retail warehouse, but aims for a commercial robot that can be "iterated on like an iPhone" to perform multiple tasks to take up the work of humans as birth rates decline around the world. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Overview

  • Figure posted Santa Clara job ads this week for a contract-to-hire night-shift coordinator and humanoid robot operators to run and validate machines overnight.
  • The coordinator role pays $40–$45 an hour for a 10:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift and requires scheduling staff, troubleshooting robot failures, enforcing safety rules, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
  • Operators and the coordinator are expected to step in when engineers are not available, manually assign tasks to robots, and test new behaviors to keep systems running in commercial settings.
  • The hiring comes as investors pour money into physical AI—PitchBook data show $33.4 billion raised in the first half of 2026—and rival Agility Robotics began trading on Nasdaq on November 5.
  • Figure presents a long-term vision of fully autonomous robots that could one day operate without humans, but the current openings make clear the near-term reality is human-in-the-loop work and hands-on shift labor.