Skild AI

Who can join

• Willing to work on-site at a Skild AI operations site. Robot Operator is an in-person role posted for San Mateo CA, Pittsburgh PA, and Bengaluru (India). There is no remote option.
• Physical ability to remain seated for extended periods and perform repetitive tasks.
• Available for the posting's hours. The Pittsburgh posting asks for at least 3 eight-hour shifts a week; the San Mateo posting says the role is full time.
• Able to communicate clearly and follow instructions, with baseline technical literacy. No college degree or robotics background is listed as required.
• A high degree of attention to detail, the ability to learn and follow instructions for new setups and tasks quickly, and a problem-solving attitude.
• Comfortable being measured against a bar of performance on both the quality and the quantity of the data you collect.

Step by step

1. 1

   Choose the site you can work on-site at

   Robot Operator is posted separately for San Mateo CA, Pittsburgh PA, and Bengaluru (Robot Operator - India). Each is fully in-person because you physically operate a robot at a Skild AI site, so confirm you can commute to one before you apply. Pay and some terms differ by site (see Get paid).

2. 2

   Apply on the official Greenhouse board

   Skild AI posts and takes applications for the Robot Operator role on its own Greenhouse board, skildai-careers. Apply there directly rather than through a third-party recruiter. Copies of the posting appear on LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor, but Greenhouse is where the application goes.

3. 3

   Submit the short application

   The Greenhouse form asks for your name and email, a resume or CV and your current location (all required), with phone and LinkedIn profile optional. There is no long written questionnaire. State your real availability: Pittsburgh asks for at least 3 eight-hour shifts a week and San Mateo is full time.

4. 4

   Recruiter screen

   Expect an initial recruiter screen that confirms location, on-site availability, shift commitment and general fit. Skild AI does not publish its screening script for operators, so treat the exact rounds as undisclosed and be ready to speak plainly about attention to detail, reliability and why the work interests you.

5. 5

   Interview focused on precision, reliability, and following procedure

   Because the job is repeating precise operations to a measured quality and quantity bar, the interview is really testing attention to detail, the ability to learn and follow a procedure exactly, and whether you will show up for every shift. Skild AI's coding-style rounds are for its engineering roles, not operators. In September 2026 Glassdoor rated technician-level roles the easiest to interview for and engineering roles the hardest.

6. 6

   Offer and on-site onboarding

   If hired, you are paid hourly and trained on the setups and the data quality and volume standards you will be measured against. A Glassdoor copy of the Pittsburgh posting, read in September 2026, described starting as a 1099 contractor with the chance to become a W2 employee after a short training period; the postings on Skild's own board do not say this, so confirm your classification with the recruiter.

Tips to get accepted

• Apply directly on the Greenhouse board (skildai-careers) and pick the exact site you can reach in person. Do not apply to the San Mateo listing if you can only work in Pittsburgh, and vice versa.
• Lead with attention to detail and reliability, not credentials. No degree or robotics background is listed as required, and the role is really about following a procedure exactly and hitting quality and quantity targets.
• Confirm the pay range and your employment classification (1099 contractor or W2 employee) for your site in the recruiter call: each site's posting states its own range, and the contractor-to-W2 path is not written in every posting.
• Follow up proactively after interviews. Multiple candidates report being ghosted for weeks, so a polite check-in protects you from waiting on a decision that may not be coming.
• If you are in Bengaluru and have several years of annotation and quality-control experience, look at the Senior Master Annotator role on the same board as a higher-skill alternative to Robot Operator.