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. 

Tech Stack

• Linux

• Python / Bazel

• PyTorch

• Isaac Sim / Mujoco

Location

The role is based in Palo Alto, CA. Candidates are expected to be in-person at the office.

Responsibilities

• Extreme ownership of autonomous capabilities, from reviewing data to model architecture design to shipping the model to ensuring that performance is maintained across the fleet over time

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

• Design high-quality eval metrics that allow us to confidently scale model pre-training

• Experiment with recently published techniques in VLM and generative models literature to predict actions

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