Bedrock Robotics
Autonomous hardware/software kit for heavy equipment
Fleet Operations Regional Manager
Remote within the United States, with up to 50% overnight travel across the Eastern Region and occasional travel to other states.
About the job
- At least 5 years of experience in field service, fleet operations, or technical field management, including at least 2 years in a supervisory or management role overseeing field technicians.
- Demonstrated ability to manage geographically distributed teams across multiple states or regions.
- Hands-on technical background in electromechanical systems, robotics, industrial automation, or a closely related field such as aerospace, heavy equipment, or electric/autonomous vehicles.
- Proven track record owning and improving reliability key performance indicators such as fleet uptime, mean time to repair, mean time between failures, or first-time fix rate.
- Strong analytical skills, including reading data from fleet monitoring systems, building summary reports, and making data-driven operational decisions.
- Ability to communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders and represent the company professionally with enterprise customers.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% across the Central Region, including overnight and multi-day trips.
- Valid United States driver's license with a clean driving record and ability to operate a commercial service vehicle if required.
- Proficiency with field service management software such as Fleetio, SAP, Salesforce Field Service, IFS, or comparable fleet management and enterprise resource planning platforms.
- Ability to work in outdoor environments with exposure to noise, dust, sun, heat, rain, and varying weather conditions.
- Ability to lift up to 40 pounds, stand for extended periods, and occasionally work in confined or elevated spaces with appropriate personal protective equipment.
- Ability to work occasional weekends, evenings, or on-call shifts in response to fleet incidents or customer escalations.
- Ability to operate a motor vehicle safely.
- Valid United States driver's license.
- Directly manage a distributed team of Fleet Technicians across the Eastern Region, spanning more than 10 states.
- Recruit, onboard, and develop technician talent; conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and career development conversations.
- Build and maintain technician scheduling, on-call rotations, and deployment coverage to ensure regional fleet service-level agreement commitments are met.
- Foster a high-accountability team culture grounded in safety, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.
- Identify training gaps and coordinate with the Training team to upskill technicians on new robot platforms, tools, and procedures.
- Own regional fleet uptime, mean time to repair, mean time between failures, and first-time fix rate metrics; report performance weekly to the Head of Data and Fleet Operations.
- Serve as the regional escalation point for complex or unresolved field issues; personally deploy or dispatch senior technicians as needed.
- Conduct root cause analysis on recurring failures and partner with Engineering to drive systemic fixes into future builds.
- Manage the regional parts inventory and tooling supply chain to ensure technicians can resolve issues within service-level agreement windows.
- Lead the regional response to fleet-wide safety events or field stops, coordinating with Safety, Engineering, and Customer Success.
- Maintain compliance with federal, state, and local regulations governing field service operations, including Department of Transportation, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and site-specific health, safety, and environmental requirements.
- Serve as the senior field representative for customer relationships across the Eastern Region; attend quarterly business reviews and site reviews as needed.
- Communicate fleet status, planned maintenance windows, and incident updates to Customer Success and customer managers.
- Ensure regional operations meet contractual service-level agreements and customer uptime commitments; escalate risks to the Head of Data and Fleet Operations before breaches.
- Collaborate with Account Management and Sales on expansion planning when customers deploy additional robots in the region.
- Go into the field to support technicians and partners as needed.
- Ensure field repairs, preventive maintenance, inspections, and parts usage are accurately documented in the Fleet Management System within required timeframes.
- Implement and enforce standardized maintenance procedures across the region; flag deviations and drive corrective action.
- Manage the regional operations budget covering travel and expenses, parts, tools, and contractor labor; flag variances and identify cost-reduction opportunities.
- Contribute to the development of new playbooks, escalation paths, and operational standards as the fleet scales nationally.
- Provide regional field intelligence to Product and Engineering, surfacing patterns, customer feedback, and environment-specific challenges.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Management, Engineering, or Robotics, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience in the robotics, autonomous systems, or advanced manufacturing industries.
- Familiarity with ISO reliability standards or equivalent reliability engineering frameworks.
- Experience managing technician teams that perform preventive maintenance and complex corrective repairs on sophisticated electromechanical systems.
- Six Sigma, Lean, or another formal process-improvement certification.
- Prior experience working within a venture-backed or high-growth technology company with evolving processes and limited structure.
About the company
Bedrock Robotics retrofits existing excavators and heavy equipment with the Bedrock Operator hardware/software kit to enable supervised and increasingly autonomous earthmoving on active construction sites. The retrofit adds cameras, lidar, IMUs, GPS and runs large-scale ML to plan and execute digging and material movement, with human operators supervising as the system takes on more tasks over time. The company differentiates itself by focusing on retrofitting current machines rather than selling new autonomous rigs and by leveraging a former Waymo leadership team with deployments across multiple states. Its goal is to make earthmoving safer and more productive by scaling autonomous capability across existing equipment through ongoing software improvements.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$350M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2024
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- February 2026 brought $270 million at $1.75 billion, funding aggressive rollout.
- August 2026 live deployments at Nevada, Texas, and Nevada prove commercial traction.
- Construction labor shortages and massive data-center, industrial, and infrastructure builds drive urgent demand.
What critics are saying
- One serious excavation accident can trigger shutdowns, lawsuits, and customer pullbacks across 2026.
- Bedrock still relies on excavators; bulldozers, loaders, and dump trucks remain unproven.
- Caterpillar, Komatsu, and OEM autonomy programs can commoditize retrofit value and crush margins.
What makes Bedrock Robotics unique
- Waymo veterans Boris Sofman and Kevin Peterson bring hard autonomy systems expertise.
- Bedrock Operator retrofits existing excavators, avoiding fleet replacement and permanent machine modifications.
- August 2026 deployments achieved fully autonomous digging on live Sundt, Champion, and Zachry sites.
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↓ -6%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.
Bedrock Robotics, a San Francisco startup founded by Waymo veterans, announced that excavators equipped with its autonomous AI system are operating without human operators on three commercial sites in Texas and Nevada. The company, valued at $1.75 billion, was founded in 2024 to automate construction and accelerate infrastructure projects. The construction industry faces significant challenges, including labour shortages and high worker death rates. More than 40% of the construction workforce is projected to retire by 2031. Bedrock retrofits excavators with sensors and onboard computing, enabling them to perceive surroundings and carry out tasks. The company plans to expand the technology to bulldozers, dump trucks, and loaders. Chief technology officer Kevin Peterson compared Bedrock's progress to Waymo's early autonomous vehicle deployments, saying the company expects similar scaling trajectories.
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.
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. Boris Sofman, Co-Founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics, says: "The construction industry is being asked to build more than it can deliver. Contractors are pulled across competing priorities with the same limited workforce and equipment. "This funding helps us scale our development and deployments as we mature autonomy capabilities and the tools for contractors to leverage them. It's a first step toward a future where entire fleets operate as coordinated systems, fundamentally changing how modern contractors plan, staff and execute work." Tech that complements crews. Autonomy systems refer to technology that enables machines to operate with limited direct human control. In construction, this includes supervised autonomy systems for mass excavation and other large-scale operations. Contractors use these systems to coordinate fleets, keep machines running longer and reduce idle time. The goal is not just one autonomous machine, but coordinated systems across an entire fleet. Bedrock positions its technology as a complement to crews. By deploying autonomy capabilities and tools for contractors, the company supports contractors as they manage labour constraints and equipment demands. The focus remains on empowering the workforce rather than replacing it, with systems that allow contractors to leverage equipment and people more effectively across projects that do not wait. Real-world applications. On a manufacturing campus in central Texas, Champion Site Prep uses the Bedrock Operator to explore how autonomous systems complement the crews they have today. The Bedrock Operator is the platform through which contractors deploy and supervise autonomy systems across machines and sites. Trey Taparauskas, President and CEO at Champion Site Prep, says: "The speed and scale of what's coming into this region is unlike anything Aimagazine has seen before - automotive, aerospace, AI infrastructure - and these projects don't wait. "What Bedrock is building will multiply what our crews are capable of. It's not just about one autonomous machine; it's the potential to rethink how we coordinate our entire fleet, keep machines running longer, reduce idle time and improve safety and work zone awareness. That frees up our best people to supervise and strategize so we can take on even more." In this context, work zone awareness refers to the ability of machines and crews to operate with a clear understanding of their surroundings on a construction site. By improving safety and awareness, contractors aim to reduce risk while maintaining productivity across large-scale earthmoving operations. The central Texas deployment demonstrates how autonomy systems operate in a live environment across a 130-acre manufacturing facility. 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. Derek Zanutto, General Partner at CapitalG, says: "Hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing into construction, but the workforce simply isn't there to meet the moment. Every major hyperscaler and developer is grappling with how to compress project schedules when labour constraints keep pushing them out. "Bedrock's technology is built on world-class autonomy expertise and we believe it will unlock the construction velocity this moment requires." Bedrock aims to achieve its first completely autonomous excavator deployments with customers in 2026, representing a significant advancement in autonomous technology for such sophisticated, multi-jointed machinery. Antonio Gracias, Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Valor Equity Partners, adds: "What stands out about Bedrock is execution - delivering milestone after milestone with precision and capital efficiency that's uncommon in this space. "The companies defining the future of AI, energy and advanced manufacturing all share a common need: they have to build faster than ever before. We're confident Bedrock is the team to make that possible." Company portals.
Bedrock Robotics raises $270M Series B to accelerate autonomous construction technology. Company reaches $1.75B valuation. Bedrock Robotics By Robotics 24/7 Staff February 5, 2026 Bedrock Robotics Bedrock Robotics secured $270 million in Series B funding to accelerate its autonomous construction technology development. Stay up-to-date with news and resources you need to do your job. Research industry trends, compare companies and get weekly market intelligence with Robotics 24/7. Autonomous construction technology company Bedrock Robotics announced it has raised $270 million in Series B funding, co-led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation 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. This round brings Bedrock's total funding to over $350 million. Bedrock Robotics looks to expand autonomous construction capabilities. Bedrock said that the funding will accelerate its mission to transform how general contractors build, from deploying individual autonomous machines to orchestrating fully connected fleets that reshape productivity and safety. The new funding follows its emergence from stealth and $80 million in Seed and Series A funding in July 2025. Bedrock Robotics also completed a large-scale supervised autonomy deployment for mass excavation on a 130-acre manufacturing site in November 2025. "The construction industry is being asked to build more than it can deliver," said Boris Sofman, co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics. "Contractors are pulled across competing priorities with the same limited workforce and equipment. This funding helps us scale our development and deployments as we mature autonomy capabilities and the tools for contractors to leverage them. It's a first step toward a future where entire fleets operate as coordinated systems, fundamentally changing how modern contractors plan, staff and execute work." Associated Builders and Contractors reported in January 2026 that the construction industry needs nearly 800,000 workers over the next two years to keep up with demand, with retirements further widening the labor gap. Project backlogs climbed to more than eight months as of December 2025, according to the report. Against this backdrop, Bedrock said that contractors are exploring its autonomy systems across a range of applications, spanning port infrastructure, industrial facilities, data centers and large-scale earthmoving operations across multiple states. On a manufacturing campus in central Texas, the company said that Champion Site Prep is currently using its Bedrock Operator to explore how autonomous systems could complement the crews they have today. "The speed and scale of what's coming into this region is unlike anything we've seen before - automotive, aerospace, AI infrastructure - and these projects don't wait," said Trey Taparauskas, president and CEO at Champion Site Prep. "What Bedrock is building will multiply what our crews are capable of. It's not just about one autonomous machine; it's the potential to rethink how we coordinate our entire fleet, keep machines running longer, reduce idle time, and improve safety and work zone awareness. That frees up our best people to supervise and strategize so we can take on even more." In addition to new funding, Bedrock recently expanded its leadership team, hiring Vincent Gonguet as head of evaluation and John Chu as head of people. The company said it is targeting its first fully operator-less excavator deployments with customers in 2026, which Bedrock said would represent a milestone in autonomous capability for such complex, articulated machines. Robotics 24/7 Staff. Latest in deployment. Latest in artificial intelligence. Latest Robotics news.