Tire Builders
Operate machines to build tires.
20,770 people do this job in the US. $57,390 a year.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 0%. Today's estimate: 0%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 20 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build semi-raw rubber treads onto buffed tire casings to prepare tires for vulcanization in recapping or retreading processes.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 13% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Buff tires according to specifications for width and undertread depth.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 11% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Fit inner tubes and final layers of rubber onto tires.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 8% | 13 min7 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Fill cuts and holes in tires, using hot rubber.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 7% | 10 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Inspect worn tires for faults, cracks, cuts, and nail holes, and to determine if tires are suitable for retreading.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 10 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Trim excess rubber and imperfections during retreading processes.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 8 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Depress pedals to rotate drums, and wind specified numbers of plies around drums to form tire bodies.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Brush or spray solvents onto plies to ensure adhesion, and repeat process as specified, alternating direction of each ply to strengthen tires.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 10 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Cut plies at splice points, and press ends together to form continuous bands.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Clean and paint completed tires.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 10 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Align treads with guides, start drums to wind treads onto plies, and slice ends.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Pull plies from supply racks, and align plies with edges of drums.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Tire Repairers and Changers1% now, 1% by 2028
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic0% now, 0% by 2028
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic6% now, 6% by 2028
- Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators0% now, 0% by 2028
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers8% now, 9% by 2028
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers0% now, 0% by 2028
Where this job works
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