OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots
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A $380,000–$500,000 salary for a robotics-focused ML engineer building data and training pipelines makes it clear: the leverage is in foundation models and infra, not the metal. Robotics startups should budget accordingly—top-tier model and data talent will cost frontier-lab money or demand equity that reflects it.
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