Tech Lead, Robot Character

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. 

As NEO lives and learns among us, we are looking for a Robot Character Tech Lead to build the multi-modal foundation models that combine emotive intelligence, personality, and body language with our task-focused AI capabilities. In this role, you will lead the team that imbues NEO with the ability to communicate non-verbally and verbally with humans and make the human-robot user experience magical.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision, architecture, and milestones for an intelligent and friendly assistant character.

• Develop low-latency streaming multi-modal neural network architectures that combine language, audio, non-verbal cues, and emit expressive behavior and speech.

• Own the character-building process from research to production, with a focus on a totally integrated product experience that is the primary UX of interacting with NEO and it’s full feature set.

• Build and lead a high-caliber team.

• Set the quality bar and guardrails to ensure that our robots evoke trust, warmth, and competence in their interactions with people.