Research Engineer, Autonomy

Target start date: Immediately. Relocation provided.

Since its founding in 2015, 1X has been at the forefront of developing advanced humanoid robots designed for household use. Our mission is to create an abundant supply of labor via safe, intelligent humanoids. At 1X, you’ll own critical projects, tackle unsolved research problems, deliver great products to customers, and be rewarded based on merit and achievement.

We are looking for a Research Engineer in Autonomy. In this role, you will train NEO to do autonomous, long-horizon tasks in unstructured environments. 

Responsibilities

• Full-stack engineering, from data engineering to model architecture design to shipping and monitoring models running across the fleet

• Train NEO to do whole body manipulation and navigation tasks in unseen environments

• Integrate frontier techniques in VLMs and generative models to predict actions

• Work with controls, QA, and data collection teams to ship RL policies to the production fleet