What the work actually is

A customer of micro1 is building robot manipulation models, and those models learn from human demonstrations. You wear or hold a capture device and perform a narrowly specified physical action — grasp the mug by the handle, rotate the lid counter-clockwise, place the item in the left bin — over and over, following a written protocol that specifies pace, grip, camera framing, and starting position. Between takes you reset the scene so each recording starts from the same state. You review footage or sensor output before moving on, and you flag anything off: a device that dropped frames, a fixture that slipped, a step in the protocol that two people would reasonably read two different ways.

This is not annotation work and it is not remote. It is in-person, physical, repetitive, and closer to a lab technician or a film-set continuity role than to anything on a screen. The people who do it well tend to come from warehouse and operations, technical trades, lab or kitchen work, competitive gaming, or craft backgrounds — anywhere that rewards doing the same motion identically the four-hundredth time. No AI or robotics background is required or expected.

What the screen is looking for

  • Verified ability to be physically present in San Francisco on a recurring schedule. This is the first gate and there is no async version of the role.
  • Evidence of sustained repetitive precision — a concrete past setting where you executed the same task hundreds of times and can describe how you kept drift out of it.
  • Instruction-following under ambiguity: what you do when a protocol does not cover the case in front of you. The desired answer is not improvisation.
  • Data hygiene instincts: recognising that a contaminated take is worse than a missing one, and being willing to say so.
  • Communication that produces usable bug reports — specific, timestamped, reproducible, not "the device was acting weird."

Logistics and pay

Contractor engagement through micro1, on-site in San Francisco. Observed pay for this band is $10–20/hr; rates are set by the client project and are not guaranteed. Sessions are typically scheduled in blocks rather than distributed across a day, and hours depend on client data needs — expect volume to fluctuate between collection pushes. Physical stamina matters: the work involves standing, repeated hand and arm motion, and long stretches of focused low-variety activity.