What it means
A sensor that measures distance with laser pulses and produces a 3D “point cloud”. LiDAR annotation means drawing 3D boxes (cuboids) around cars, people and other objects in those point clouds, mostly for self-driving cars and robots.
Used in: Data annotation and robotics data roles.
In open roles right now
4 of the open roles we list mention “LiDAR” in the title or description, on 4 platforms (as of 23 October 2026).
Most of them on: Appen / CrowdGen (1), Claru (1), HumanSignal (1), Label Your Data (1).
Field Data Collection Specialist (Columbus, OH)HumanSignal·United States·Full-time
$25–30/hr28 days ago
3D & LiDAR Data Annotation AnalystAppen / CrowdGen·United States
$30–32/hr1 month ago
Data Annotator for Geospatial / LiDAR projectLabel Your Data·10 countries·Full-time
Pay set per project2 months ago
Related terms
AnnotationAdding information to raw data so a model can learn from it: tags on text, boxes on images, timestamps on audio.Bounding boxA rectangle drawn around an object in an image or video frame, with a label such as “car” or “pedestrian”.LabellingPutting a category or tag on a piece of data: an image, a sentence, a search result, a clip of audio.SegmentationMarking the exact outline of objects in an image, pixel by pixel, rather than drawing a box round them. ← LabellingPrevious term, A to Z. Onboarding →Next term, A to Z. The whole glossaryEvery term on one page, A to Z.Open →