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Robot Training Jobs Weekly
Three minutes a week on paid robot-training work: how many teleoperation, data-collection, vehicle and drone operator and fleet roles are open, who is hiring, what each kind of work pays where employers say, and what changed. Read from the same daily numbers as the job board.
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Week to 18 October 2026: 1,029 open robot-training roles, and what they pay
1,029 open robot-training roles from 73 employers, 302 of them new this week: which kinds of work are hiring, the median hourly pay of each, who posts the most, and what to check before you apply.
Transcript
This is Robot Training Jobs Weekly: a few minutes on the job market for people who train robots, from RobotTraining.jobs. This episode covers the week to the eighteenth of October, twenty twenty six.
Robots and self-driving systems learn from people. Someone rides along as the safety operator in a test vehicle, steers a robot arm from a control station, films everyday tasks with a camera on their head, or keeps watch over a fleet of delivery robots. Every day, RobotTraining.jobs reads the job boards of the employers that hire for this work.
On the eighteenth of October those boards held one thousand and twenty-nine open roles, from seventy-three employers. Three hundred and two of them first appeared in the past seven days.
What kind of work is open? The largest group by far is autonomous vehicle and drone operators, with four hundred and seventy-seven roles. Next come robot fleet operations, with two hundred and twenty-eight, and egocentric and wearable video capture, with one hundred and nineteen. Robot teleoperation has ninety-five open roles, and data and demonstration collection has eighty-nine. Embodied AI data annotation and robot task evaluation are still small, about ten roles each.
What does the work pay? Where an employer states an hourly rate, vehicle and drone operator roles have a median of twenty-nine dollars an hour, most of them between twenty-six and thirty-six. Teleoperation and demonstration collection both sit at a median of twenty-eight dollars. Fleet operations pay a median of twenty-two. Many postings state no rate at all, so these medians come only from the ones that do.
Who is hiring the most? TSMG, which staffs autonomous vehicle operators in many cities, has four hundred and seventy-four open roles. Tesla has one hundred and sixty-four, across its Optimus robot and self-driving teams. Amazon Prime Air has sixty-eight drone roles, Avride has forty-five, and Transdev twenty-two.
If you are looking for this kind of work, keep three things in mind. Almost all of it is in person, in the city where the vehicles or robots are, so check the location first: only about three in every hundred roles can be done from home. New postings are picking up: forty-seven new roles in the week that started on the fifth of October, up from nine in the week of the fourteenth of September. And when a posting states no pay, compare it with the median for its kind of work before you accept an offer.
Every open role, with its pay and how to apply, is on RobotTraining.jobs, and these figures are free to cite under a Creative Commons licence. Thanks for listening, and see you next week.