5 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and improve real-time C++ infrastructure for sensor pipelines, motor control interfaces, and deterministic scheduling.
- Establish benchmarking, flamegraph tooling, and regression tracking for latency and throughput.
- Build IPC and serialization layers using lock-free queues, memory pools, and shared-memory buffers.
- Develop foundational libraries that run reliably across thousands of robots.
- Profile, trace, benchmark, and debug systems across Linux toolchains, ABI boundaries, kernel interfaces, and hardware targets.
- Design clear, minimal-dependency interfaces with deterministic behavior and reliable failure modes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of production C++ experience in performance-critical systems such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, HFT, game engines, operating systems/runtime, compilers, or HPC.
- Demonstrated ability to profile, benchmark, and debug at the systems level using flamegraphs, perf counters, assembly inspection, and Linux kernel interfaces.
- Proven experience writing systems code with clear interfaces, minimal dependencies, and deterministic behavior under load.
- Preferred experience with real-time or safety-critical systems.
- Preferred familiarity with lock-free data structures, memory pools, and shared-memory IPC patterns.
- Preferred experience with cross-compilation toolchains and embedded Linux targets.
- Preferred background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other physical systems.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options.
- Commuter benefits for transit and parking.
- Short-term and long-term disability and life insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program for mental health, financial, and personal support.
- Onsite snacks and catered lunches.
About 1X
1X builds and manufactures humanoid robots designed to perform real-world physical tasks in homes and workplaces, paired with AI-driven control software. The company pursues a hardware-plus-software robotics business model, with development focused on general-purpose manipulation and mobility. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it is privately held and operates in the robotics, AI, and electronics manufacturing domains, with products including the EVE and NEO humanoid platforms.