LiDAR and 3D Scanning Operator
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$16k – $26k per year
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In office (Johannesburg)
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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 31, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 27, 2026.
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YPAI is a Norwegian AI services company based in Lysaker near Oslo that supplies multimodal training data, data annotation, dataset licensing and human model evaluation, and also builds AI assistants and other production AI systems for clients. It runs consent-led data collection and labeling projects across text, speech, image and video, using a remote freelance workforce recruited in countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America. Its freelance roles include model evaluators for RLHF, text and NLP annotators, machine translation post-editors, QA reviewers, field collection and capture rig operators and dataset sourcing partners.
Scan rooms, routes and objects in 3D with LiDAR, as paid in-person work. It suits people who have LiDAR or depth hardware, or who will use a supplied rig.
In person, in and around Johannesburg, not from home. This listing is for English speakers who live there or can travel there.
What the work is for
The scans become point clouds that train and test 3D perception for robots, vehicles and mapping.
The work
- Scan the routes, rooms or objects the project specifies.
- Keep coverage, overlap and scan density within the stated limits.
- Upload raw scans with their calibration and position data.
You need
- Access to LiDAR or depth capture hardware, or willingness to use a supplied rig.
- Permission to scan the locations you propose.
- 18 years or older.
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