4 months ago
San Carlos, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$190k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable behavior architectures for autonomous, multi-step household tasks using cloud-based world models.
- Build decision-making frameworks with behavior trees, hierarchical state machines, planners, or similar AI architectures.
- Integrate behavior systems with Core, World Model, Apps, and Motion teams for real-world robot operation.
- Improve the realism, robustness, and adaptability of robot behaviors while establishing engineering practices for large-scale behavior development.
- Write performant C++ systems, manage cloud-system latency, and lead technical initiatives across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Develop tools that help designers, researchers, and engineers author and debug complex AI behaviors.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience for Senior or 10+ years for Staff developing gameplay systems, conversational AI, NPC behaviors, or system architecture.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Game Development, Robotics, AI, or a related technical field.
- Strong proficiency in C++, system programming, and object-oriented software design.
- Experience with Unreal Engine, Unity, proprietary game engines, or large-scale simulation environments.
- Expertise in decision-making architectures, planning systems, autonomous agent behaviors, scalable performance-critical systems, and complex interactive environments.
- Preferred experience with behavior trees, GOAP, hierarchical state machines, planners, open-world games, large-scale simulations, conversational AI, emergent gameplay, robotics, autonomous systems, reinforcement learning, embodied AI, navigation, pathfinding, task scheduling, perception, world modeling, and AI behavior tooling.
Benefits
- $190,000–$280,000 compensation range plus equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts.
- Commuter benefits for transit and parking.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program for mental health, financial, and personal support.
- Onsite snacks and catered lunches.
Tech Stack
Categories
GamingRobotics
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.