Open Call – Research Engineer / Scientist
1X Technologies · San Carlos, CA
CHECKED 15H AGO
Roboticsonsite$250k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build humanoid robots that work in homes and give people time back.
- Advance sensing, actuation and control toward human-level humanoids.
- Turn ambitious ideas into prototypes that ship in flagship NEO robot.
What they offer
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
- Generous paid time off, company holidays and parental leave
- 401(k) plan with company match
- FSA and HSA options
- Commuter benefits
- Short-term and long-term disability and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Onsite snacks and catered lunches
Ideal candidate
Deep technical expert and relentless builder who thrives in ambiguity and wants research to ship. Motivated by closing humanoid capability gaps and testing bold ideas against real-world reality.
Requirements
- First-author or equivalent high-impact publication in a relevant technical field
- Developed a prototype, system or technology advancing the state of the art
- Founded or co-founded a technical venture bringing deep-tech to the world
- Exceptional technical depth in at least one relevant field with cross-disciplinary reasoning
- hiring process
- When applying, describe the performance gap to close, your technical foundation, why existing approaches fail, and what you would build and test first.
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