Figure AI robot operator and night-shift coordinator jobs: pay, commercial sites in Reno and Los Angeles, a Fontana customer site, and labor cost per robot hour

Figure is hiring a Shift Coordinator, Humanoid Robot Operations (Night) in Santa Clara at $40 to $45 an hour, for a 10:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, contract-to-hire. Business Insider called it a job to "babysit" robots. The posting, first published Nov. 5, says the coordinator leads Figure's humanoid robot operators, owns robot uptime and throughput, triages failures and steps in to "operate robots when the shift needs it." Morning and swing coordinators at the same site are posted at $35 an hour.

Source: Figure careers (Greenhouse job board): 101 open roles, team counts and posted pay, checked Nov. 11, 2026

It is one of 30 robot operations openings among the 101 roles on Figure's job board on Nov. 11: 9 in Internal Fleet Operations, 13 in Commercial Operations and 8 in Data Operations. Commercial-site Humanoid Robot Operator roles in Reno and Los Angeles pay $26 to $30 an hour. A swing-shift coordinator "based at our customer site in Fontana" pays $140,000 to $165,000 a year. None of the postings names a customer. Catalyst Brands, the JCPenney parent, said in May that its Figure deployment would start at its Reno distribution center.

The Reno and LA operator postings require following "all safety procedures related to robot and teleoperation equipment" but do not say what that equipment is used for on site. A separate Humanoid Robot Pilot role in San Jose, at $32 an hour, wears teleoperation gear to collect training data. Figure is also staffing a 24/7 data-capture unit in Sao Paulo, which it calls its first in Brazil, plus roles in Mexico City. Figure said it built its 1,000th Figure 03 in July.

Servospace take: the human line per robot hour

Servospace estimate, not a Figure figure: Figure does not publish how many robots one operator runs, how big its site crews are, or what customers pay. So here is the human line on its own, using only posted wages, before benefits, payroll taxes, robot hardware or Figure's margin.

A commercial-site operator costs $26 to $30 for every hour a site is staffed. If one operator watches one robot, the crew wage alone is $26 to $30 per robot hour. The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the May 2025 median wage for hand laborers and material movers in the Reno metro at $21.15 an hour, a benchmark for the warehouse work involved, not a claim that each robot replaces one worker. Add a shift coordinator at the Fontana pay band, $140,000 to $165,000 a year, or about $67 to $79 an hour over 2,080 work hours, and one coordinator plus one operator on shift costs about $93 to $109 an hour. That mixes Fontana coordinator pay with Reno and LA operator pay as a hypothetical commercial crew, not a roster Figure published. Spread over 2 robots, that is $47 to $55 per robot hour; over 5 robots, $19 to $22; over 10, $9 to $11; over 20, $4.67 to $5.47. Break-even against the $21.15 Reno wage lands at roughly 4.4 to 5.2 robots per operator-plus-coordinator crew. Staffing that seat around the clock, 168 hours a week, is about $15,700 to $18,400 a week in wages.

Night pay pushes the line up: the Santa Clara night coordinator earns $5 to $10 an hour more than the $35 morning and swing coordinators, 14% to 29% more. The ratio of robots to people is the number that decides humanoid economics, and it is the number Figure has not published.

Sources

• Figure careers (Greenhouse job board): 101 open roles, team counts and posted pay, checked Nov. 11, 2026
• Figure job posting: Shift Coordinator, Humanoid Robot Operations (Night), Santa Clara
• Figure job posting: Humanoid Robot Operator, Commercial Site Team (Reno)
• Figure job posting: Humanoid Robot Operator, Commercial Site Team (LA)
• Figure job posting: Swing Shift Coordinator, Fontana customer site
• Figure job posting: Humanoid Robot Pilot, San Jose
• Figure job posting: Shift Coordinator, Data Creators (Sao Paulo)
• Business Insider: Wanted: A human willing to babysit robots on the graveyard shift (Sarah E. Needleman, Nov. 2026)
• Humanoids Daily: Figure's Night-Shift 'Robot Babysitter' Is One of About 30 Jobs Keeping Its Humanoids Running (Nov. 11, 2026)
• Catalyst Brands via JCPenney Newsroom: Catalyst Brands Taps Figure AI for Humanoid Automation (May 26, 2026)
• Figure: Figure Signs Agreement with Catalyst Brands to Scale Humanoid Operations (May 26, 2026)
• Humanoids Daily: A Golden Milestone: Figure Manufactures Its 1,000th Figure 03 Humanoid (July 26, 2026)
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, May 2025: Reno, NV metro, Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (53-7062)

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