Staff Embedded Firmware Engineer - NEO
1X Technologies · San Carlos, CA
CHECKED 14H AGO
Roboticsonsitestaff$200k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own firmware powering NEO humanoid's actuators, power and comms bus.
- Build foundational software for home robots now shipping at scale.
- Enable safe operation across 20+ distributed embedded nodes.
What they offer
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off and holidays
Ideal candidate
A builder who owns embedded work end-to-end and cares about safety in physical systems. You move fast, diagnose from first principles, and want your firmware powering real home robots.
Requirements
- 5+ years of embedded firmware development in C/C++ on real hardware, with interrupts, DMA and timing-critical execution (7+ years for senior/staff)
- Hands-on experience with microcontrollers and embedded communication interfaces including CAN plus SPI, I2C or UART
- Ability to debug firmware on real hardware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers or equivalent tools
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