On-Site Robot Training Jobs: Labs, Depots and Test Tracks

How it was measured

Daily reads of the public job boards run by the robot training employers and programs this site follows, using each open role's title, location text and the workplace field its board provides. 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.

On-site or hybrid

The work happens at a named location for at least part of the week. Either the title or location says so ('Onsite', 'On-site London', 'In-person', 'Hybrid'), or a board with its own workplace field (Lever, Ashby) marks the role as not remote. Hybrid roles land in this group because listing fields cannot tell them apart from fully on-site ones.

Remote

The role's title or location says remote (or work from home, worldwide), or its board flags it remote. 'Remote' that names the work ('Remote Driver', 'Remote Assistance Operator') says how a robot or vehicle is controlled, not where the worker sits, and is not read as remote.

Not stated

Nothing in the title, location or workplace field indicates where the work happens. Silence is never taken to mean on-site.

City or metro area

Taken from the location text. A city's country comes from the country or US state written next to it, or from the only country in its list, and is never guessed. Cities in the same metro area are combined, and a role offered at several sites counts once at each.

Work, read from the title

Each on-site role falls in the first of these groups whose words its title contains: autonomous vehicle and truck operation; drone and flight operations; robot teleoperation; robot data collection and demonstrations; robot service, field and fleet operations; robot testing, evaluation and QA; other robot operation; other.

Advertised pay

The hourly rate a listing gives (midpoint of any range), compared inside each kind of work. A median needs 3 or more roles with a stated rate on each side.

New listing

A role seen for the first time during the window, at an employer this site was already following the week before. Whatever an employer has up in its first tracked week is back catalogue and does not count as new.

Open role

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

Window

Live page: the 28 most recent full days (UTC). Edition: a single calendar month (UTC).

Limits of this data

• Both shares are floors: a role that requires on-site sessions may say so only in its description.
• Listing fields give no way to separate hybrid roles from fully on-site ones.
• Location text can mean where the work happens or where applicants must live, and it is not always clear which. Two capital letters after a city are taken as a US state.
• Hiring that happens without a public job board is not captured.
• A posting is not a hire, and employers that post one copy per city or site give extra weight to the cities where they do that a lot.

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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