Company brief · updated 2026-10-18
humanarchive.ai · Industrials
Today: "a data and deployments infrastructure company for Physical AI" (site); "Currently OTS we have RGB, RGB-D, audio, tactile, mocap, and robot data" (site)
Roles: Deployment Associate - Field Operations · Operations Manager · Operations Manager (on-site) · Operations Manager (YC-Backed, High-Growth Startup) · Dark Store & Inventory Operations Lead · Founder's Office · Operations
Requirements mention: field operations · deployment partnerships · site readiness · dark store · kits and logistics · willingness to work on site and travel
Inference: the operations roles (all in India except one Global 'Operations' role) point to expanding field deployment capacity and an internal store for cameras, power banks and storage devices used by field teams.
Today: "Human Archive's datasets are foundational infrastructure for automating manual labor" (site); "building a high-performing annotator workforce for robotics data" (Strategy & Project Lead posting)
Roles: Chief of Staff · Strategy & Project Lead (Data Operations) · Head of Talent Acquisition
Requirements mention: Recruit, evaluate, and manage high-quality data annotators · Allocate annotators across multiple simultaneous projects · high-volume recruiting · Forecast staffing requirements
Inference: the three roles suggest the company is adding managed annotator headcount, along with the recruiting, onboarding and payroll administration to support it.
Today: "Human Archive is a data and deployments infrastructure company for Physical AI." (site)
Roles: Member of Technical Staff, India · Head of Engineering Operations
Requirements mention: FastAPI · PostgreSQL · idempotent writes · RAID · ZFS · chain of custody · data integrity
No inference drawn (weak signal). The postings describe a system of record for collected data, annotator tooling, ingest from physical media into cloud storage, and storage administration.
Today: "Currently OTS we have RGB, RGB-D, audio, tactile, mocap, and robot data." (site)
Roles: Camera Systems and Calibration Engineer · Embedded / Electrical Engineer · Firmware Engineer · Mechanical Engineer · Head of Operations · Head of Engineering
Requirements mention: Multi-camera array design · Camera driver experience (V4L2 or equivalent) · Composite chassis design · ODM management · manufacturing execution · wearable capture hardware
Inference: the four China engineering roles, the China supply-chain lead and the San Francisco Head of Engineering point to designing and manufacturing the company's own wearable capture hardware for its data collection.
Today: "Currently OTS we have RGB, RGB-D, audio, tactile, mocap, and robot data." (site)
Roles: Research Engineer · Machine Learning Engineer
Requirements mention: multimodal datasets · VLA training · robot learning · policy evaluation
Inference: the two San Francisco software roles suggest work on models trained or evaluated on the company's collected multimodal data.
Today: "Human Archive's datasets are foundational infrastructure for automating manual labor" (site)
Roles: Founder's Office Intern - Partnerships
Requirements mention: strong campus networks · Traveling to campuses
No inference drawn (weak signal; one internship). The posting describes campus groups as a network for data collection, sponsorships and hiring.
| Department | Open |
|---|---|
| Operations | 13 |
| Hardware | 6 |
| Software | 2 |
Of 21 open roles, 13 are in Operations (12 in India, 1 Global), 6 in Hardware (5 in China, 4 of them engineering plus a supply-chain Head of Operations, and a Head of Engineering in San Francisco) and 2 in Software in San Francisco.
Seniority: Director 3, senior 5, manager 6, mid 2, junior 1, intern 1, unknown 3.
Skills named most: field operations, Python, inventory, IMUs, motion capture, RAID, ZFS, dashboards, Hindi, dark store, multimodal datasets, sensing hardware
Locations: India 12 (all listed as not remote or remote not stated), China 5 (listed as not remote), San Francisco 3, Global 1. No roles are listed as remote.
If you're applying: Check location and language first: all roles are in India, China or San Francisco (plus one Global), none are remote, and the India operations roles require on-site work and travel. The Operations Manager postings list ₹4–7 LPA. Match your skills to the quoted requirements before applying.
If you're selling or recruiting: Hiring centres on India field and annotation operations and on wearable hardware built in China. Several lead seats (Head of Talent Acquisition, Head of Operations, Head of Engineering, Head of Engineering Operations) are themselves open, so reach the company through the founders' office or team@humanarchive.ai. Velocity is computed as freeze (0 opened, 0 closed in the last 30 days), but the latest postings are dated 2026-09-14 and the hardware and software roles have been open since May 2026, so confirm current hiring status before outreach.
| Title | Department | Location | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Engineering Operations | Operations | India | 2026-09-14 |
| Member of Technical Staff, India | Operations | India | 2026-09-14 |
| Operations Manager (YC-Backed, High-Growth Startup) | Operations | India | 2026-09-01 |
| Head of Talent Acquisition | Operations | India | 2026-08-20 |
| Chief of Staff | Operations | India | 2026-08-18 |
| Operations Manager (on-site) | Operations | India | 2026-08-13 |
| Founder's Office Intern - Partnerships | Operations | India | 2026-08-12 |
| Deployment Associate - Field Operations | Operations | India | 2026-08-06 |
| Operations Manager | Operations | India | 2026-08-03 |
| Strategy & Project Lead (Data Operations) | Operations | India | 2026-08-03 |
| Founder's Office | Operations | India | 2026-08-03 |
| Dark Store & Inventory Operations Lead | Operations | India | 2026-08-03 |
| Camera Systems and Calibration Engineer | Hardware | China | 2026-05-25 |
| Embedded / Electrical Engineer | Hardware | China | 2026-05-09 |
| Firmware Engineer | Hardware | China | 2026-05-09 |
| Mechanical Engineer | Hardware | China | 2026-05-09 |
| Operations | Operations | Global | 2026-05-09 |
| Research Engineer | Software | San Francisco | 2026-05-09 |
| Head of Operations | Hardware | China | 2026-05-09 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | Software | San Francisco | 2026-05-09 |
| Head of Engineering | Hardware | San Francisco | 2026-05-06 |