3 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop real-time software stacks for humanoid robot movement, balance, manipulation, and reliable operation.
- Design and deploy state estimation systems and control algorithms for balancing, locomotion, and manipulation.
- Create efficient hardware abstractions and APIs that allow higher-level AI systems to command the robot.
- Perform system identification and calibration of actuators, transmissions, and full-body kinematics.
- Build software and tools for hardware bring-up, debugging, health monitoring, visualization, and logging.
- Integrate, evaluate, and debug robotics hardware components, sensors, and actuators.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience deploying and debugging control or estimation software on high-DOF robots.
- A proven track record of evaluating and integrating robotics hardware components, including sensors and actuators, in a professional or advanced academic setting.
- Strong theoretical and applied knowledge of rigid body dynamics, linear algebra, and numerical optimization.
- Experience implementing optimization-based whole-body control, EKF-based state estimation, or model predictive control for legged systems.
- High proficiency writing clean, production-ready C++ in a Linux development environment.
- Understanding of software development practices including version control, testing methodologies, and system architecture.
- Preferred experience with Java, Unity/C#, Python, real-time Linux, ROS2, or DDS.
- Preferred experience writing embedded C for sensors or actuators.
- Familiarity with the Yocto OS build system.
- Hands-on independent experience building or tinkering with robotics hardware from scratch.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Competitive equity.
- Salary range of $200,000-$300,000.
- Work arrangement and contract duration are not stated.
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.