Figure's Night-Shift "Robot Babysitter" Is One of About 30 Jobs Keeping Its Humanoids Running

Figure is hiring someone to run its humanoid robots overnight. The posting, for a Shift Coordinator, Humanoid Robot Operations (Night) in Santa Clara, pays $40 to $45 an hour for a 10:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, and Business Insider picked it up this week as a job for a "robot babysitter." It is one of about 30 roles on Figure's careers page whose job is to keep the company's robots running, at its own sites, at customer sites in California and Nevada, and at data-collection centers in Brazil and Mexico.

Key Takeaways

Show all

• Figure's night-shift coordinator in Santa Clara pays $40 to $45 an hour. The same site is also hiring morning and swing-shift coordinators, which suggests the internal fleet runs around the clock.
• About 30 of Figure's 101 open roles are in the three teams that run robots: Internal Fleet Operations, Commercial Operations and Data Operations.
• Commercial site teams are hiring in Reno, Los Angeles and Fontana, California. Reno is where Catalyst Brands said its Figure deployment would start. The Fontana customer has not been named.
• Operator postings for customer sites list safety procedures for teleoperation equipment. A separate Humanoid Robot Pilot role in San Jose wears teleoperation gear to teach the robots new behaviors.
• Figure is staffing a 24/7 data-capture operation in São Paulo, its first in Brazil, with matching roles in Mexico City.

Three shifts in Santa Clara

The night coordinator leads a team of humanoid robot operators and makes the calls when something goes wrong. Engineering support is thin overnight, so the job covers triaging robot failures and safety issues, deciding whether to keep running or stand down, filing tickets in Jira and handing the day team a report on what happened. The posting asks for three years of shift leadership in manufacturing, field or lab operations, the ability to lift 50 pounds of "humanoid hardware," and a willingness to "step in hands-on and operate robots when the shift needs it." It is contract-to-hire, and the posting says the robots are kept running "for real commercial use cases."

The night role is not the only one. Figure's Internal Fleet Operations team has nine openings, among them coordinators for the morning, swing and night shifts in Santa Clara, robot service technicians on two shifts there, and humanoid robot operators for morning, afternoon and night shifts at its San Jose headquarters. A Robot Operations Manager sits above them.

That staffing fits what Figure has said about running its robots continuously. During a campus tour in the spring, CEO Brett Adcock described a plan for 24/7 operation with wireless charging through the robots' feet. Last week, he posted videos of dozens of Figure 03 robots walking around headquarters. Figure built its 1,000th Figure 03 in July and has not given a production total since.

Customer sites in Reno, Los Angeles and Fontana

Commercial Operations is the largest of the three teams, with 13 openings. Two are for a Humanoid Robot Operator on a "Commercial Site Team," one in Reno and one in Los Angeles, each paying $26 to $30 an hour. The operators run the robots "in the field or on customer sites," handle bring-up and shutdown, report bugs and test new behaviors and skills.

Reno is where retail group Catalyst Brands, the parent of JCPenney, Aéropostale and Brooks Brothers, said in May that it would start using Figure's robots, at its distribution center there. The postings do not name a customer.

The best-paid operations role on the board is in Fontana, a warehouse hub east of Los Angeles. Figure is hiring a Swing Shift Coordinator there for $140,000 to $165,000 a year. The posting says the job is "based at our customer site in Fontana," where the coordinator would lead operators and technicians, own daily onsite production and act as the customer's point of contact on shift, including weekends and holidays. A field service technician is being hired for the same site. Figure has had people there for months: an earlier listing for a Humanoid Robot Operator & Data Creator at the Fontana customer site was taken down in October. We have asked Figure who the customer is.

At Figure's all-hands meeting in October, Adcock said its robots were operating in three US states. BMW's plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where Figure 03 returned in June, plus the commercial site teams in Nevada and California would account for three.

The rest of the team moves and fixes robots. A Fleet Launch Operator ($26 to $35 an hour) drives robots in company vans and trucks "from our facilities to commercial and residential sites and back." There are also openings for a mobile service technician, a night-shift commercial technician and a service manager for robot technicians in Santa Clara.

Teleoperation gear and data centers abroad

The Reno and Los Angeles operator postings both list adherence to "all safety procedures related to robot and teleoperation equipment." They do not say what the teleoperation equipment is used for at customer sites. In October 2025, Adcock said Figure would not teleoperate its robots in the market.

Teleoperation is spelled out in Figure's Data Operations team. A Humanoid Robot Pilot in San Jose, paid $32 an hour on a six-month fixed-term contract, wears teleoperation equipment to guide robots through new behaviors, uploads the data to Figure's AI training system and reports to the AI team every day. The job involves night shifts and offsite stays of up to a month.

The same team is building data operations in Latin America. A Shift Coordinator, Data Creators posting in São Paulo describes what Figure calls its first data operations unit in Brazil, a 24/7 operation with three rotating shifts that pays R$8,000 to R$13,000 a month and requires professional English because escalations go to US teams. Figure is also hiring technical coordinators for São Paulo and Mexico City and a project lead for data creators in Mexico City, along with local facilities, IT, finance and people roles in both cities.

This adds to Index, the app through which Figure pays people to film themselves doing chores. Adcock said at the all-hands that Figure spent an estimated $8.1 million on data in a single week.

People in the loop

Figure's website says that over time "humans could leave the loop altogether," with robots eventually building other robots. The careers page shows how many people the company still puts in the loop for now: operators on three shifts, coordinators at customer sites, drivers moving robots between locations and teleoperation pilots teaching new skills, across two US states and two other countries.