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Bedrock Robotics

Builds autonomy kits for construction equipment

Head of Bedrock Operations Center

Full-TimePosted on 10/14/2026
No salary listed
Expert
San Francisco, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: Lockhart, TX, USA
Hybrid
Operations & Logistics

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 12 years in operations leadership, including at least 5 years building and leading 24/7 or mission-critical operations such as command centers, remote operations, network or fleet operations, or large-scale support organizations.
  • Experience building an operations organization from early stage to scale, including hiring and developing managers and shift leads and managing large hourly and/or contract workforces.
  • A track record defining and managing service-level agreements, escalation paths, and incident response in safety-critical or high-availability environments.
  • Experience influencing engineering, product, and commercial leaders, driving difficult decisions, and managing risk through rapid growth.
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort with operational data, dashboards, and forecasting models; SQL and business intelligence tools are a plus.
  • Experience with workforce planning, scheduling, and shift-based operations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication with customers, field crews, and executives.
Responsibilities
  • Define the Operations Center operating model, organizational structure, and coverage model—including shifts, time zones, and follow-the-sun coverage—as the fleet scales.
  • Build and lead the Operations Center leadership team and a growing workforce of shift leads and specialists.
  • Own workforce planning and ensure adequate, qualified staffing; partner with Product and Engineering on machines-per-operator ratios based on fleet growth, product mix, and new machine types.
  • Own the physical and technical readiness of the Operations Center, including infrastructure, redundancy, connectivity, and business continuity.
  • Own round-the-clock remote operations for autonomous machines, including response-time service-level agreements, escalation protocols, and clear decision authority.
  • Establish safety-first standards for remote interventions, remote stops, and hand-offs to on-site personnel in partnership with Safety teams.
  • Build training, certification, and quality-assurance programs for remote assistance operators.
  • Analyze intervention data and partner with Autonomy Engineering to reduce interventions and improve machine autonomy over time.
  • Build and lead a tiered support function (L1/L2/L3) with clear escalation paths into Field Operations, Service, Hardware, Remote Assistance, and/or Engineering.
  • Define and deliver support service-level agreements tailored to each product line and customer commitment.
  • Own ticketing, the knowledge base, and customer communication standards; turn voice-of-customer trends into fixes.
  • Partner with the Commercial team on customer onboarding, service commitments, and account health.
  • Own live, fleet-wide situational awareness, including machine status, health, location, and utilization across every site.
  • Coordinate daily dispatch, service, and maintenance with Field Operations, including parts and technician routing.
  • Serve as incident command for operational and safety events, with playbooks for triage, escalation, communication, and post-incident review.
  • Own runbooks, shift hand-off standards, and change management for new sites, machine types, and platforms.
  • Define and track Operations Center metrics, including intervention rate and response time, resolution time, service-level agreement attainment, fleet uptime, customer satisfaction, and cost to serve.
  • Run operational review cadences that drive accountability and bring key insights to leadership.
  • Lead continuous improvement through process, automation, and data to increase the number of machines each operator can safely support.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience running operations centers for autonomous vehicles, robotics, trucking, aviation, or mining.
  • Experience leading remote assistance, teleoperation, or fleet response teams for autonomous systems.
  • Familiarity with heavy machinery and/or the construction industry.
  • Experience building business-to-business or technical support for industrial equipment or hardware products.
  • Familiarity with fleet telemetry, monitoring and alerting, ticketing, and workforce-management tools.
  • Experience launching operations across multiple regions or time zones.
  • Continuous improvement, Lean, or Six Sigma experience.

About the company

Bedrock Robotics builds hardware and software that turn contractors' existing heavy equipment into autonomous machines for earthmoving on construction sites. Its Bedrock Operator kit combines sensors and onboard computing to perceive the surroundings, plan excavation, and move material alongside crews and other equipment. Site managers set the work plan, while the system carries out tasks and reports progress and performance. The company develops its technology with construction partners and equips their fleets with autonomy upgrades for large infrastructure and industrial projects. Bedrock Robotics was founded in 2024 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$350M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2024

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What believers are saying

  • Engineering expansion has fresh backing: Bedrock raised $270 million in February 2026 to scale development and deployments.
  • Commercial use has arrived: Bedrock announced unattended excavator deployments with Sundt and Zachry in August 2026.
  • Customers want relief from repetitive work: Sundt says Bedrock frees skilled operators from months of truck loading.

What critics are saying

  • Fleet expansion remains unfinished: Bedrock describes excavators as today's product and other machine types as future plans.
  • Reliability faces harsh conditions: Bedrock's perception work must handle dust, sensor occlusion, vibration, and calibration drift.
  • Expect field exposure: Bedrock's careers page describes testing at construction sites and facilities in Texas and California.

What makes Bedrock Robotics unique

  • Autonomy experience comes from public roads: Bedrock's founders previously developed self-driving systems at Waymo.
  • Retrofits preserve fleet flexibility: Bedrock says its kit installs in one day without permanent equipment modifications.
  • Learning follows real excavation: Bedrock trains large machine learning models on construction projects across the country.

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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Oct 13th, 2026
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Plant & Equipment
Aug 18th, 2026
Bedrock puts fully autonomous Cat excavators to work.

Bedrock puts fully autonomous Cat excavators to work. Post Date: Aug 18, 2026 Dubai (PlantAndEquipment.com) - Bedrock Robotics has launched fully autonomous excavators on active commercial construction sites, as competition heats up to introduce autonomous technology to huge heavy equipment fleets. The machines are now doing earthmoving operations on three large projects in Texas and Nevada for contractors Sundt Construction, Champion Site Prep, and Zachry Construction Corporation. Bedrock's autonomous technology has been deployed on big production equipment, such as Caterpillar Cat 352 and Cat 336 hydraulic excavators, confirming its effectiveness on full-size machines suited for demanding bulk earthmoving. Bedrock is concentrating on large-scale construction activities where excavators do repeat, high-volume earthmoving operations, rather than smaller or more regulated applications. The tech company views autonomy as a method for contractors to enhance the amount of work that current teams can do while boosting safety and project predictability. Bedrock first concentrated on excavators, but its long-term goal is to create autonomous systems that can coordinate numerous kinds of construction machines throughout a worksite. The market for self-driving heavy equipment is becoming more competitive. Bedrock's commercial deployments coincide with Gravis Robotics' efforts to retrofit autonomy technology for excavators and other gear, as well as major OEMs' investments in autonomous construction and mining equipment. The increased investment reflects expanding demand for technologies that may alleviate labor shortages and increase productivity as contractors work on increasingly big infrastructure, data center, energy, industrial, and residential projects.

Business Insider
Aug 17th, 2026
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The Etownian
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Bedrock Robotics raises $270M to automate construction equipment with AI-powered excavators

Bedrock Robotics has raised $270 million in new funding, reaching a $1.75 billion valuation, as it develops AI-powered autonomous construction equipment. The round was led by CapitalG, Alphabet's investment arm, and Valor Atreides AI Fund, with existing investor 8VC participating. Founded two years ago by former Waymo executives including CEO Boris Sofman, Bedrock has created the Bedrock Operator, a retrofittable system using lidar and cameras to automate excavators. The technology provides 360-degree views and precise digging capabilities. The company is currently testing at sites in Arizona, Texas, Arkansas and California with construction firms including Sundt Construction and Zachry Construction Corporation. Bedrock faces no competition from established manufacturers like Caterpillar or John Deere, which have not automated excavators. The company claims its technology augments rather than replaces human labour.

AI Magazine
Feb 17th, 2026
Bedrock Robotics: Helping to Define the Future of AI

Bedrock Robotics: helping to define the future of AI. February 17, 2026 Contractors are exploring Bedrock Robotics' autonomy systems across a range of applications spanning ports, industrial facilities and data centres Research suggests the construction industry needs nearly 800,000 workers over the next two years to keep up with demand. Retirements are set to further widen the labour gap and project backlogs climbed to more than eight months as of December 2025. As a result, contractors are exploring Bedrock Robotics' autonomy systems across a range of applications spanning port infrastructure, industrial facilities, data centres and large-scale earthmoving operations across multiple states. Bedrock recently secured US$270 million in a Series B funding round co-led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund, accelerating its mission to transform how general contractors build. 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Bedrock publicly launches in July 2025 with US$80m raised through Seed and Series A rounds, and by November successfully deploys a large-scale supervised autonomy system for mass excavation across this site. Mass excavation involves moving large volumes of earth to prepare a site for infrastructure, industrial facilities or data centres. Contractors across port infrastructure, industrial facilities and AI infrastructure are exploring similar applications. Unlocking construction velocity. Bedrock's latest funding round also received support from Xora, 8VC, Eclipse, Emergence Capital, Perry Creek Capital, NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), Tishman Speyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgian, Incharge Capital, C4 Ventures and others. The firm's total funding now stands at more than US$350m, leaving it well placed to help more contractors deploy individual autonomous machines and orchestrate fully-connected fleets that reshape productivity and safety. 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