{"name":"Waabi Hiring Data (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)","question":"How many roles does Waabi list, in what kinds of work, at what pay and open to whom?","source":"The public job boards of the robot training employers and programs this site tracks, read every day. Waabi's figures come from its own public listings only; full descriptions and application forms are read where its job board publishes them.","publisher":"RobotTraining.jobs","url":"https://robottraining.jobs/research/waabi-hiring-data","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"RobotTraining.jobs (2026). Waabi Hiring Data (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026). https://robottraining.jobs/research/waabi-hiring-data (accessed 10 Oct 2026)","frozen_at":null,"report":"waabi-hiring-data","method":1,"edition":null,"window":{"from":"2026-09-12","to":"2026-10-09","days":28},"computedAt":"2026-10-10T22:21:24.738Z","summary":"On 9 Oct 2026, Waabi listed 8 open robot training roles (1.1% of the market, the joint 9th largest of 60 employers), 5 of them in AV & Drone Operators; 1 stated an hourly rate, too few for a median, and all accepted applicants only from listed countries, most often the United States.","stats":[{"id":"open-roles","value":"8","label":"open roles on 9 Oct 2026, 1.1% of the market","figure":"compared-with-market"},{"id":"stated-pay","value":"1 of 8","label":"open roles state an hourly rate","figure":"pay-against-market"},{"id":"location-rule","value":"8 of 8","label":"open roles accept applicants only from listed countries","figure":"location-rules"},{"id":"main-kind","value":"5 of 8","label":"open roles in AV & Drone Operators","figure":"kinds-of-work"}],"findings":[{"id":"size","figure":"compared-with-market","text":"Waabi listed 8 open roles on 9 Oct 2026, 1.1% of the 745 open across the 60 employers RobotTraining.jobs reads, the joint 9th most."},{"id":"trend","figure":"open-roles-by-week","text":"Counted at the end of each week, Waabi held 8 open roles on both 20 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026."},{"id":"main-kind","figure":"kinds-of-work","text":"5 of its 8 open roles are in AV & Drone Operators, where Waabi holds 1.4% of all open roles, the joint 7th largest share of 23 employers; it lists 3 of the 7 kinds of work with open roles."},{"id":"pay-level","figure":"pay-against-market","text":"1 of its 8 open roles state an hourly rate, too few for a median (it needs 8)."},{"id":"access","figure":"location-rules","text":"None of its 8 open roles are open to applicants in any country (0.8% on other employers); all are limited to listed countries, most often the United States (named by all 8)."},{"id":"turnover","figure":"listing-flow","text":"From 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026, Waabi posted 0 new listings and removed 0; it was first tracked on 12 Sep 2026."},{"id":"application","figure":"application-form","text":"An application form at Waabi has a median of 12 fields (15 on other employers' forms); all of its 8 forms require a resume, all ask for a LinkedIn profile and all add questions of their own."},{"id":"title-word","figure":"title-words","text":"The title word Waabi uses most is \"Operator\" (5 of its 8 open roles), against 33.9% of other employers' open roles."}],"figures":[{"id":"compared-with-market","title":"Waabi against the other employers","question":"How does Waabi compare with the rest of the market on size, pay, reach and turnover?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Measure","unit":"text"},{"key":"platform","label":"Waabi","unit":"text"},{"key":"others","label":"Other employers","unit":"text"},{"key":"rank","label":"Its rank (1 = highest)","unit":"text"}],"rows":[{"key":"open","cells":{"group":"Open roles on 9 Oct 2026","platform":"8","others":"737","rank":"joint 9th of 60"}},{"key":"market-share","cells":{"group":"Share of all open roles","platform":"1.1%","others":"98.9%","rank":"joint 9th of 60"}},{"key":"new","cells":{"group":"New listings in the window","platform":"0","others":"103","rank":"joint 24th of 60"}},{"key":"kinds","cells":{"group":"Kinds of work listed","platform":"3","others":"7","rank":"joint 4th of 60"}},{"key":"stated","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Open roles stating an hourly rate","platform":"12.5%","others":"14.7%","rank":"n/a"}},{"key":"median-pay","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Median advertised pay","platform":"n/a","others":"$26/hr","rank":"n/a"}},{"key":"worldwide","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Open roles accepting any country","platform":"0.0%","others":"0.8%","rank":"n/a"}},{"key":"days-listed","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Median days listed, removed roles","platform":"n/a","others":"27.2 days","rank":"n/a"}}],"sample":"8 roles Waabi listed open at the end of 9 Oct 2026, beside the 737 open on the other 59 employers RobotTraining.jobs reads; listings from 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026.","notes":["Other employers: every other employer read over the same window, pooled (counts are summed, medians are taken over all their roles together).","Rank among the 60 employers with open roles; shares need at least 10 open roles, a pay median 8 roles stating a rate and days listed 10 removed roles with a known listing date, so an employer below a threshold is not ranked on it. Days listed rank longest first.","Listings only: what the employer's public job board shows."]},{"id":"open-roles-by-week","title":"Open roles at Waabi, week by week","question":"Is Waabi listing more robot training roles or fewer?","series":true,"columns":[{"key":"week","label":"Week","unit":"text"},{"key":"open","label":"Open at the end of the week","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"new","label":"New listings","unit":"count"},{"key":"removed","label":"Removed","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"2026-09-14","axis":"14 Sep","thin":false,"cells":{"week":"14 to 20 Sep","open":8,"new":0,"removed":0}},{"key":"2026-09-21","axis":"21 Sep","thin":false,"cells":{"week":"21 to 27 Sep","open":8,"new":0,"removed":0}},{"key":"2026-09-28","axis":"28 Sep","thin":false,"cells":{"week":"28 Sep to 4 Oct","open":8,"new":0,"removed":0}}],"sample":"Listings by Waabi, by ISO week (Monday to Sunday, UTC), 14 Sep 2026 to 4 Oct 2026; 3 weeks tracked.","notes":["Open roles are counted at the end of each week (Sunday, UTC), or at the end of the window for a week it cuts. New listings leave out roles that came with the employer's back catalogue."]},{"id":"kinds-of-work","title":"What Waabi hires for","question":"Which kinds of robot training work does Waabi list, and how much of each market does it hold?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Kind of work","unit":"text"},{"key":"open","label":"Open roles","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its roles","unit":"percent"},{"key":"marketShare","label":"Its share of the kind's open roles","unit":"percent"},{"key":"rank","label":"Its rank in the kind","unit":"text","secondary":true},{"key":"median","label":"Its median per hour","unit":"usd","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"av-drone-operator","href":"/roles/av-drone-operator","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"AV & Drone Operators","open":5,"share":62.5,"marketShare":1.4,"rank":"joint 7th of 23","median":null}},{"key":"robot-qa-eval","href":"/roles/robot-qa-eval","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Robot Task Evaluation & QA","open":2,"share":25,"marketShare":18.2,"rank":"2nd of 4","median":null}},{"key":"fleet-ops","href":"/roles/fleet-ops","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Robot Fleet Operations","open":1,"share":12.5,"marketShare":1,"rank":"joint 6th of 14","median":null}}],"sample":"8 roles Waabi listed open at the end of 9 Oct 2026; market shares are of the 745 roles open on all 60 employers that day.","notes":["Kinds of work are this site's seven categories of robot training work, each role classified from its title and description.","Its rank in the kind is among the employers with open roles in it. A median needs at least 8 roles stating an hourly rate."]},{"id":"pay-against-market","title":"What Waabi advertises it pays","question":"How often does Waabi state its pay, and how does it compare with other employers for the same work?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Roles","unit":"text"},{"key":"stated","label":"Stating an hourly rate","unit":"percent"},{"key":"median","label":"Its median per hour","unit":"usd","bar":true},{"key":"band","label":"Its middle half","unit":"text","secondary":true},{"key":"others","label":"Other employers' median","unit":"usd"},{"key":"gap","label":"Its median against theirs","unit":"percent","signed":true},{"key":"priced","label":"Its roles stating a rate","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"all","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"All its open roles","stated":12.5,"median":null,"band":null,"others":26,"gap":null,"priced":1}},{"key":"av-drone-operator","href":"/roles/av-drone-operator","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"AV & Drone Operators","stated":20,"median":null,"band":null,"others":35,"gap":null,"priced":1}},{"key":"robot-qa-eval","href":"/roles/robot-qa-eval","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Robot Task Evaluation & QA","stated":0,"median":null,"band":null,"others":null,"gap":null,"priced":0}},{"key":"fleet-ops","href":"/roles/fleet-ops","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Robot Fleet Operations","stated":0,"median":null,"band":null,"others":22,"gap":null,"priced":0}}],"sample":"1 of the 8 roles Waabi listed open on 9 Oct 2026 state an hourly rate; other employers: 108 of 737.","notes":["Pay is the hourly figure a posting advertises (the middle of a stated range). The middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile.","A median needs at least 8 roles stating a rate, on each side for a comparison. The row compared within the same kinds of work averages the kinds where both sides have enough, weighted by the employer's priced roles in each, so an employer listing better-paid work is not read as paying more for the same work."]},{"id":"location-rules","title":"Who may apply to roles at Waabi","question":"Are the roles Waabi lists open to applicants anywhere, or limited to some countries?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Location rule","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Its open roles","unit":"count"},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its roles","unit":"percent","bar":true},{"key":"others","label":"Share on other employers","unit":"percent"}],"rows":[{"key":"global","cells":{"group":"Open worldwide","roles":0,"share":0,"others":0.8}},{"key":"exclude","cells":{"group":"Worldwide except listed countries","roles":0,"share":0,"others":0}},{"key":"include","cells":{"group":"Only listed countries","roles":8,"share":100,"others":99.2}},{"key":"unknown","cells":{"group":"No rule stated","roles":0,"share":0,"others":0}}],"sample":"8 roles Waabi listed open on 9 Oct 2026, against the 737 open on other employers.","notes":["The rule is read from each posting's location text and, where the posting is silent, from what the employer states about where it hires. A rule says where applications are accepted; tax, payment and work-permit rules can still apply."]},{"id":"countries-named","title":"Countries Waabi names in its limited roles","question":"When Waabi limits a role to some countries, which countries does it name?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Country","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Limited roles naming it","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its limited roles","unit":"percent"},{"key":"sole","label":"Open only there","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"US","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"United States","roles":8,"share":100,"sole":8}}],"sample":"8 of the 8 roles Waabi listed open on 9 Oct 2026 accept applicants only from listed countries; 8 of them name a single country. 1 country named.","notes":["A role naming several countries counts for each. Open only there: roles whose list names this country alone."]},{"id":"listing-flow","title":"Listings posted and removed by Waabi","question":"How many roles did Waabi post and take down?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Measure","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Roles","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"others","label":"Other employers","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"open-start","cells":{"group":"Open at the start of 12 Sep 2026","roles":null,"others":0}},{"key":"new","cells":{"group":"New listings","roles":0,"others":103}},{"key":"removed","cells":{"group":"Removed listings","roles":0,"others":109}},{"key":"open-end","cells":{"group":"Open at the end of 9 Oct 2026","roles":8,"others":737}}],"sample":"Listings by Waabi from 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026 (first tracked during the window).","notes":["New listings: roles first seen in the window, outside the employer's first week in this dataset. Removed: roles that left the feed during the window. A role can be both.","Waabi was first tracked on 12 Sep 2026: roles first seen in that week are its back catalogue, not new listings, and it has no count at the start of the window.","The other employers' count at the start leaves out employers first tracked during the window."]},{"id":"title-words","title":"What Waabi calls the work","question":"Which words does Waabi use in its job titles: operator, teleoperator, driver, technician, data collector?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Title word","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Its open roles","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its roles","unit":"percent"},{"key":"others","label":"Share on other employers","unit":"percent"},{"key":"median","label":"Its median per hour","unit":"usd","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"operator","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Operator","roles":5,"share":62.5,"others":33.9,"median":null}},{"key":"specialist","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Specialist","roles":4,"share":50,"others":8.8,"median":null}},{"key":"driver","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Driver","roles":2,"share":25,"others":33.9,"median":null}},{"key":"tester","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Test or evaluation operator","roles":2,"share":25,"others":13.6,"median":null}},{"key":"trainer","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Trainer","roles":2,"share":25,"others":3.5,"median":null}},{"key":"none","cells":{"group":"None of these words","roles":0,"share":0,"others":0.7,"median":null}}],"sample":"8 roles Waabi listed open on 9 Oct 2026, by the words in their titles (the same vocabulary as the job titles report).","notes":["A title can use several words ('Robot Teleoperator (AI & Robotics)') and counts for each, so shares add to more than 100%. Whole words, case-insensitive."]},{"id":"application-form","title":"What an application to Waabi asks for","question":"What does an application to Waabi ask for, and what must be filled in?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Item","unit":"text"},{"key":"asked","label":"Its forms asking","unit":"percent","bar":true},{"key":"required","label":"Its forms requiring it","unit":"percent"},{"key":"others","label":"Other employers' forms asking","unit":"percent","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"company","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Current employer","asked":100,"required":100,"others":70.5}},{"key":"github","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"GitHub profile","asked":100,"required":0,"others":71.5}},{"key":"linkedin","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"LinkedIn profile","asked":100,"required":100,"others":90.3}},{"key":"location","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Location or country","asked":100,"required":0,"others":91.8}},{"key":"phone","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Phone number","asked":100,"required":100,"others":92.1}},{"key":"portfolio","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Portfolio or website","asked":100,"required":0,"others":78.3}},{"key":"resume","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Resume or CV","asked":100,"required":100,"others":100}},{"key":"cover","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Cover letter","asked":0,"required":0,"others":16.2}},{"key":"files","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Other file uploads","asked":0,"required":0,"others":0}}],"sample":"The application forms of 8 of the 8 roles Waabi listed open on 9 Oct 2026, read from its applicant-tracking system (Lever); a median of 12 fields and 2 questions of its own (other employers' 692 forms: 15 fields).","notes":["Required: the form will not submit without it. Name and email, asked by every form, are not listed. Some employers apply in steps (a short form, then an assessment); only the first form is read."]}]}