The role, which has the title “Data Collection Operator,” requires workers to walk along test routes and perform designated tasks while wearing a motion-capture suit and a virtual reality headset for more than seven hours per day, according to the job description from Tesla’s Careers page. In addition to collecting data, workers are also expected to analyze the information they’ve gathered, write daily reports on it, as well as work on some minor tasks related to their equipment and its software.
It also has very specific height requirements and calls for people between five foot, seven inches and five foot, eleven inches. Christian Hubicki, a roboticist out of Florida A&M University, said Tesla is likely looking for individuals who will not only fit into the specific suits, but will also have similar sizing to the robot, which Musk has said will clock in around five foot, eight inches.
Over the past year, the company has reportedly hired “dozens of workers” to train the humanoid robot, which it calls Optimus. The role reportedly pays as much as $48 per hour and required employees to wear motion-capture suits, like they do in the movies, as well as VR headsets “for long stretches of time,” reports BI.
