Firmware Engineer - Testing
1X Technologies · San Carlos, CA
Roboticsonsite$150k–$190k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own firmware release quality for NEO humanoid home robot.
- Build test rigs from single boards to full actuator setups.
- Prove safety-critical behavior works under edge cases.
What they offer
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
- 401(k) with company match
- FSA and HSA options
- Commuter benefits for transit and parking
- Short-term and long-term disability and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Onsite snacks and catered lunches
- Equity
Ideal candidate
An embedded tester who treats developer velocity as their own goal and hunts failure modes others miss. You love bench work and automation alike and want your testing to keep home robots safe.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science or related field, or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with safety-critical standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 13849 or ISO 26262, including requirements traceability and verification
- Experience in embedded security testing: secure boot, code signing, hardware security modules or TPMs, fuzzing, penetration testing or fault-injection attacks, and standards such as IEC 62443 or ISO/SAE 21434
- Familiarity with real-time operating systems such as FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS or Zephyr, and a robotics, automotive or IoT device background
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
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