Tesla Hiring Data

How it was measured

Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. Every Tesla figure is drawn solely from its own public listings, with full descriptions and application forms read wherever its job board provides them. 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.

Other employers

All employers and programs this site reads except Tesla, pooled over the same window: counts are added up and medians are computed across all their roles at once. That way Tesla is set against the rest of the market rather than a market it is part of.

Rank

Where it sits among employers with open roles on the window's final day, highest first (longest first for days listed). Thresholds apply: 10 open roles for shares, 8 roles with a stated rate for a pay median and 10 removed roles for days listed. An employer under a threshold gets no rank on that measure.

Open role

On a given day, a role that has been posted and still shows in the employer's feed. In the weekly series, open roles are counted at each week's close (Sunday, UTC).

Back catalogue

Whatever an employer already had posted in its first tracked week. The weekly series flags that week, does not count its roles as new listings and omits every earlier week.

New listing

A role seen for the first time during the window, at an employer this site was already following the week before.

Removed listing

A role that dropped out of its employer's feed within the window. If most removals or additions land on a single day, the figure points that out, since one big change to a board can swing the window's totals.

Days listed

For a role that came down: the span from its listing date to the final day its feed showed it. A median needs 10 or more such roles with a known listing date.

Advertised pay

The hourly rate a listing gives, using the midpoint when it gives a range. A median appears only when 8 or more roles state a rate, and the middle half spans the 25th to the 75th percentile.

Like-for-like pay comparison

In each kind of work where the employer and the other employers each state 8 or more hourly rates, divide its median by theirs and subtract one. Average across those kinds, weighting by the employer's priced roles, so an employer that simply posts higher-paid kinds of work does not look like it pays more for the same job. Two qualifying kinds are required.

Location rule

Taken from the location text of each listing: worldwide, worldwide with named exceptions, named countries only, or no rule given.

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.

Title word, robot or vehicle, capture

Matched in titles as whole words using the word lists of the job titles report and the robots and equipment report. One title may match several.

Required

A degree, a licence, a minimum age, years of experience or a background check the description requires, read with the requirements report's reader (a preference does not count).

Application form

Everything a candidate fills in on the employer's own application page, collected from its applicant-tracking system. Required means the form cannot be sent until that field is filled in.

Window

Live page: the 28 most recent full days (UTC), and for the weekly series the twelve most recent full ISO weeks, none earlier than the week of 14 Sep 2026. Edition: a single calendar month (UTC), with its weeks trimmed at the month boundaries.

Limits of this data

• Hiring done without a public job board is not captured, and an employer can staff projects it never posts. Its listings show what it advertises, not all of its hiring.
• 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.
• Listings only: how many people apply to an employer is never published here.
• These are advertised rates. Overtime, shift premiums and bonuses can change what a worker actually takes home.
• Only some job boards publish full descriptions and application forms, so those figures exist only for employers on such boards and reflect the roles open on the day of the read.
• When a listing disappears, the role may have been filled, put on hold or cancelled; employers do not say which.

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

Quoting this report

You may quote, chart or republish these figures under CC BY 4.0, provided you link back to this page. The live numbers shift every day. For a figure that stays put, quote a monthly edition, or note the date you accessed this page.

@misc{robottrainingjobs_tesla_optimus_hiring_data_live,
  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {Tesla Hiring Data (live data, 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/tesla-optimus-hiring-data}},
  note = {Accessed 18 Oct 2026},
}

Files: every figure in one CSV (a row per value) or as JSON. Each figure can also be downloaded separately. Other open data: datasets and API.

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