Expert terms for robot data projects

This agreement is between you and O-mega Enterprise, Inc., the company that operates RobotTraining.jobs ("RobotTraining.jobs", "we", "us"). It governs your place on our project bench, from which you take on paid robot data projects that we run for our clients: teleoperation and demonstration sessions, filming or capturing everyday tasks, labeling robot video, evaluating robots, vehicles and drones, writing task specifications, and testing for edge cases.

Being on the bench commits neither side: you never have to take a project, and we never have to offer you one. Every project has its own written project terms, setting out the work, the pay, the hours we expect, the window for delivering the work, the pay schedule and anything particular to that client. You read them before deciding, and you accept projects one at a time. For a given project, these terms and its project terms form the entire agreement, and where the two conflict, the project terms govern that project.

Your use of the site is also governed by our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, linked at the bottom of every page.

On a project you are an independent contractor, not our employee. In practice:

• Accepting a project is your choice, and you may turn down any project without explaining why.
• Within the project's delivery window, you set your own hours. We do not assign shifts.
• How you do the work is up to you, provided it meets the project's written quality standard.
• You are free to work for others, competitors in this field included, unless a project's terms set a specific restriction for that project's duration, which you see before accepting.
• Your equipment and internet connection are your own, and so is responsibility for your taxes. Where the law calls for it (a Form 1099-NEC in the United States, for example), we issue you a tax form for what we paid you.

If your state's law requires it (for example in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois or Vermont), a project may engage you as an employee through a payroll provider instead; its project terms say so before you accept.

These terms do not make you our employee, partner or agent unless a project's terms engage you as an employee, and you cannot bind us to anything.

You confirm that you have the right to do paid work where you live and work.

• Set in writing first. The project terms state the pay, hourly or per task, before you accept, and it is not reduced while the project runs.
• Paid for every hour the project requires. Onboarding, training, calibration and any trial or assessment the project calls for are paid at the project rate.
• On a fixed timetable. We pay on the schedule in the project terms, to the payout method you set up with us. Before we can pay you, you provide the tax information the law requires (a W-9 in the United States, for example, or a W-8BEN elsewhere).
• For work reported honestly. You report the hours or tasks you actually worked; we pay for accepted work, and any work sent back comes with an explanation (section 4).

• Each project has a written standard defining accepted work, and you see it before starting.
• Your work may be checked by a reviewer. If work is not accepted, you are told why in writing.
• You can respond to any review and ask that a different reviewer look at it again.
• We never capture screenshots, record your screen or monitor your activity. We assess the work, not how you spend your time.
• If you cannot complete a project you accepted, let us know as early as you can; we pay for the accepted work you delivered until then.

Projects involve our clients' confidential information: their robots, vehicles and AI systems, sites, instructions, data, footage and results. You agree to:

• use that information only for the project's work, and keep it confidential both during the project and afterwards;
• not share, publish or discuss it with anyone outside the project, social media included, unless the client has made it public;
• not copy it outside the tools the project uses, and delete whatever you hold once the project ends;
• not produce the work with AI tools unless the project's terms permit it.

You also keep our clients' identities confidential, unless a client has announced the relationship itself.

None of this prevents you from reporting a possible violation of law to a government agency or from testifying. Under the US Defend Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. 1833(b)), you are not liable under any trade secret law for disclosing a trade secret in confidence to a government official or a lawyer solely to report or investigate a suspected violation of law, or in a filing made under seal in a lawsuit.

Whatever you create for a project (recordings, demonstrations, labels, ratings, task specifications, written material and the like) belongs to that project's client, or to us on that client's behalf. As you create it, you assign to us, for our client, every right in that work, and you agree to sign anything reasonably needed to confirm the assignment. Your general knowledge, skills and experience remain yours, as does anything you created before or outside the project.

• The work evaluates or creates material for robots and the AI systems that run them. It is not a professional service (medical, legal, financial or other advice) to any patient, client or member of the public, and it creates no such relationship with anyone.
• You remain responsible for complying with the rules of your own profession and licence.
• You do not bring information about real patients, clients or other people into a project unless the project has been set up for it in writing (for example under a business associate agreement for health information).
• Everything you tell us about your credentials and experience must be true. We may verify it against public registries and with you.

A client receives your details only once you accept that client's project, and only what the project needs: typically your name, your relevant credentials and experience, and how we assessed you. We never sell your data. The rest, including how to have your information deleted, is in our Privacy Policy.

You may pause or leave the bench whenever you like from your workspace. Leaving does not end a project you have already accepted, unless you tell us you cannot finish it (section 4).

When we change these terms, the new version carries a new date, and you are asked to accept it before your next project.

For questions about these terms or about a project, contact us at hello@robottraining.jobs.