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November 2026 to date in robot-training hiring

The robot-training job market in figures, counted from the employer job boards we read every day, as recorded up to 1 Nov 2026. The month is still running: these figures are to date and are updated each day.

The market, 1 Nov 2026

Open roles on 1 Nov 2026
1,157, up 4 from 1,153 on 31 Oct 2026
Employers hiring
100, unchanged from 100 on 31 Oct 2026
Roles opened, 1 Nov 2026
7
Roles closed, 1 Nov 2026
0

Who added and who cut

Added the most open roles

  • Tesla: 6 more open roles (7 opened, none closed; 171 to 177)

Cut the most open roles

  • micro1: 2 fewer open roles (none opened, none closed; 8 to 6)

Posted hourly pay by kind of work, 1 Nov 2026

  • Robot Teleoperation82 open roles; median $30/hr, unchanged from $30/hr a month before, typical $25-$40/hr (22 rates from 11 employers)
  • Data & Demonstration Collection128 open roles; median $30/hr, unchanged from $30/hr a month before, typical $25-$50/hr (27 rates from 9 employers)
  • Egocentric & Wearable Capture134 open roles; median $10/hr, unchanged from $10/hr a month before, typical $6-$25/hr (23 rates from 6 employers)
  • Embodied-AI Data Annotation17 open roles; median $30/hr, unchanged from $30/hr a month before, typical $7-$75/hr (7 rates from 6 employers)
  • Robot Task Evaluation & QA9 open roles; 2 posted rates, too few for a figure
  • Robot Fleet Operations237 open roles; median $25/hr, unchanged from $25/hr a month before, typical $20-$40/hr (53 rates from 18 employers)
  • AV & Drone Operators550 open roles; median $30/hr, unchanged from $30/hr a month before, typical $25-$50/hr (84 rates from 19 employers)

Every role behind these figures, with its pay, place and the days it went up and came down, comes as files in the Robot hiring radar.

Method

How we count: open roles and employers hiring are the job board's count as recorded at that day's read of every employer board we follow. A role is opened on the day we first record it, except in an employer's first week in our records, and closed on the day it was last listed. Pay is the posted hourly pay of the roles listed on 1 Nov 2026: the median, and the typical band from the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each advertised range) to the 90th-percentile advertised ceiling, stated only from 3 distinct posted rates.

Figures to date, computed 1 Nov 2026, 06:30 UTC. They are updated each day until the month is over, then published and frozen.

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