Bedrock Training & Certification Lead

Bedrock Robotics•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Bedrock Robotics is hiring its first Bedrock Training & Certification Lead to build the company’s learning and qualification capabilities as it scales autonomous systems for heavy construction equipment. The role owns how internal employees and external partners learn to work safely and productively with Bedrock’s autonomous system. Internal audiences include field operations, site operators, technicians, remote assistants, and new hires; external audiences include contractor and service crews, supervisors, and equipment operators. The lead will develop and launch Bedrock University, including Bedrock Certified, a structured program that qualifies partner operators to use Bedrock’s autonomous systems and aims to become a recognized construction-industry credential. The position sets the learning strategy and works across Operations, Safety, Engineering, and Product. It also owns training resources, budgets, vendors, certification standards, learning records, and outcome measurement. The role is expected to travel 30% or more to job sites and training locations. Success includes launching a scalable partner certification program, ensuring internal and partner teams are qualified before operating systems, improving time to productive operation, keeping training current with product releases, and establishing Bedrock training as a trusted standard.

Requirements

3–5 years in learning and development or technical training, including experience leading a training function with people and budget responsibility.
Experience building technical training for safety-critical or regulated operations, such as heavy equipment, construction, industrial, transportation, or robotics.
A track record of designing and running certification or qualification programs that determine who is allowed to perform the work.
Experience building train-the-trainer programs and managing external training partners or vendors.
Strong command of instructional design, adult learning principles, and competency assessment.
Hands-on learning management administration and reporting experience, with a data-driven approach to measuring results.
Ability to influence senior leaders and work across Operations, Safety, Engineering, and Product.
Willingness to travel 30% or more to job sites and training locations.

Nice To Haves

Background in construction, heavy civil, or heavy equipment operations, and knowledge of OSHA regulations.
Experience with autonomous systems, robotics, or advanced construction technology.
Experience building customer- or partner-facing training, including programs that generate revenue.
Experience building a learning and development function at a hyper-growth startup.
Leadership development and coaching experience.
Familiarity with learning management systems and approaches.
Familiarity with simulation, video, or AR/VR training tools.

Responsibilities

Set the vision, roadmap, and success metrics for learning and development across Bedrock.
Design the approach to instructional design, technical training, field instruction, and technical writing.
Own the learning and development budget, resourcing plan, and vendor and contractor relationships.
Partner with Operations, Safety, Engineering, and Product leaders to anticipate training needs as the product and company footprint grow.
Design onboarding and role-based learning paths for field operations, site operators, remote assistants, and technicians.
Build hands-on technical curriculum for autonomous heavy equipment, including system setup, task planning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and safe intervention.
Turn software releases, new machine capabilities, and standard operating procedure changes into timely training updates.
Introduce leadership and manager development as the company scales.
Design and launch Bedrock Certified for partner operators and supervisors.
Define certification prerequisites, curriculum, field assessments, and recertification standards, covering safety, system operation, site setup, plan interpretation, and troubleshooting.
Build train-the-trainer programs so certified partner leads can qualify their own crews.
Ensure partner teams are trained and certified before and after each site launch.
Embed safety-critical practices, OSHA requirements, and Bedrock standard operating procedures in every program.
Keep training materials and standard operating procedures accurate and under version control.
Select an approach to track learning qualifications and recertification timelines, including enrollments, qualification records, and reporting.
Track competency, certification status, time-to-productivity, and safety outcomes, and use the data to improve programs.
Travel 30% or more to job sites and training locations.