OpenAI will pay you $500K to NOT build robots

OpenAI is hiring for robotics again — 27 open roles, up from 11 in May, with base pay up to $500,000. The twist: the best-paid job isn't designing robot hands or actuators. It's an ML engineer building the data pipelines that feed training data to robots. The bottleneck in robotics isn't hardware anymore — it's data. The company that taught machines to talk is now teaching them to move, and the most valuable skill turns out to be plumbing for information.