Camera Hardware Engineer, Robot Head
1X Technologies · San Carlos, CA
CHECKED 15H AGO
Roboticsonsitemid-level$176k–$225k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own camera validation for NEO humanoid from prototype bring-up to mass production.
- Define image quality standards powering perception, navigation, and manipulation.
- Deliver robust vision systems for millions of hours in real homes.
What they offer
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
- 401(k) with company match
- Commuter transit and parking benefits
- Onsite snacks and catered lunches
Ideal candidate
A builder with 3+ years in imaging who owns complex hardware end-to-end and thrives cross-functionally. You love rigorous lab work and debugging, and want to ship vision systems that let home humanoids reliably perceive the real world.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline
- 3+ years experience developing, validating, or characterizing camera and imaging systems
- Deep understanding of image sensors, optics, lenses, ISPs, and imaging pipelines
- Working knowledge of electrical and mechanical integration of camera modules
- Experience programming with Python and C/C++
- Proficiency working in Linux environments
- Experience with Imatest, Image Engineering, MATLAB, or equivalent
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work full-time onsite in San Carlos, CA
- remote policy
- onsite
Lab profile
About 1X Technologies
Building safe humanoid robots for home chores backed by embodied AI research.
What they build
- Humanoid robots for home use
- Foundation models for embodied intelligence
Known for
- Safe humanoid hardware design
- Embodied AI and robot learning
- World model pretraining
- Physics simulation and dynamics
Key facts
- Founded in 2014