How Robot Training Employers Screen Applicants

How it was measured

Two daily reads of the robot training employers' own boards: each open role's full description, where the board publishes it, and its application form, where the employer's applicant-tracking system (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable, Teamtailor and others) can be read. A single database query produces each figure for the window shown, and the live page and every monthly edition run that identical query. The note under each figure gives its base.

Screening step

One of seven checks a description can name: a test, assessment or trial task; an AI-led or recorded interview; an interview with a person, or of a kind not stated; a background check; identity verification (these five are selection steps); a licence, certificate or professional credential; work samples, a portfolio or a publication record (these two are proof of qualification). A step counts when the description names it, whether as a requirement or as something that may be asked.

Selection passage

The part of a description about applying and being chosen: a section headed as the process ('Process', 'Application steps', 'What to expect'), a sentence about applying, onboarding, screening or selection (and the sentence after it), or a sentence addressed to applicants outside the sections that describe the work or its qualifications. The five selection steps are read only there, with the requirements report's patterns plus a few documented additions, so 'test autonomy software' or 'interview riders' in the duties does not count as a check.

Proof of qualification

A licence or credential the description names (a driver's license, a CDL, an FAA Part 107 certificate, a pilot license, a professional certification), or work the applicant has to show: samples, a portfolio or reel, a verifiable profile or a publication record. Read from the whole description, required or preferred.

Screening depth

How many of the seven steps a description names, given as a median and as the portion of roles naming two or more.

Form burden

How many fields an application form will not send without, from name and email through to the last required screening question.

Required

The form cannot be sent until this field is filled in.

Question theme

What an employer's own form question is about (work authorization, availability, pay, degree, experience, languages, a licence, earlier robotics, teleoperation or driving work, a driving record, shifts, physical demands, a background check, age), read from its label with the applications report's documented patterns. The pay theme covers both an expected rate and accepting the stated one.

Coverage

An employer's board either publishes full descriptions or exposes its application form, some do both and some neither. Each figure names the employers and the portion of open roles it reads, and an employer is only compared on the source it publishes.

Open role

On a given day, a role that has been posted and still shows in the employer's feed.

Kind of work

A role's title and description place it in one of the seven kinds of robot training work this site follows, ranging from robot teleoperation and demonstration collection through egocentric capture, embodied-AI annotation, robot evaluation and fleet operations to AV and drone operation. Each kind has a page of its own.

Window

Live page: the roles open at the end of the 28 most recent full days (UTC). Edition: the roles open at the end of a single calendar month.

Limits of this data

• Named, not observed: an employer can screen more than its descriptions say, so every portion is a floor, and pass rates are not published, so nothing here says how selective a step is.
• The employers that publish descriptions are not the ones whose forms can be read, and a few publish neither; the coverage figure lists which is which.
• Large employers often reuse one description and one form across cities, so an employer's figure can reflect a single template, and pooled portions lean on the employers with the most open roles.
• Only the first application form is read. Tests, road tests and interviews that follow on an employer's own site show up only when the description names them.
• An oddly worded step can be missed, and a step named inside a section that describes the work, without a word about applying, is not counted.
• Hiring that happens off public job boards is invisible here, and some data-collection programs sign people up inside an app instead of posting a job.
• A posting does not equal a hire. Certain employers leave evergreen roles up for months, and others post the same role once per city or country.

Collection and classification of listings are explained on the methodology page. Freshness, completeness and consistency are tested daily in the data quality report.

Monthly editions

The live page spans the 28 most recent full days and updates daily. Every finished month also gets its own edition, locked two days after month end, so a number quoted from it stays fixed.

• Live page28 most recent full days, rebuilt daily
• October 2026 edition (you are here)Will lock when the next daily refresh runs

Quoting this report

You may quote, chart or republish these figures under CC BY 4.0, provided you link back to this page. This edition is locked: its numbers will not change.

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