Software Engineer - NEO Reliability
1X is a Palo Alto-based AI and robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots, led by its NEO home robot.
Palo Alto, United States
About 1X
1X develops humanoid robots that live and learn alongside people. Its flagship product, NEO, is a home robot designed to autonomously help with household tasks, supported by the company’s embodied-AI systems.
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About the Role
You will own reliability practices across web, cloud, mobile, on-robot, and embedded software. You will build integrated end-to-end testing, measure robot health and movement, investigate reliability issues, and help establish reliability standards across software systems.
Requirements
- Software engineering depth in cloud and backend, systems, or embedded software
- Experience building test and reliability infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
- DevOps, Linux, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code skills
- Python proficiency and proficiency in at least one systems language
- Statistical and probabilistic skills
- Experience building products from zero to one and from one to production
- SRE practices including SLOs and error budgets
- Fleet observability and monitoring
- Hardware-in-the-loop and on-robot testing
- Simulation testing
- IoT, HPC, cloud, or embedded experience
Responsibilities
- Deliver integrated testing across web, cloud, mobile, on-robot, and embedded systems
- Own end-to-end testing from developer tests through robot movement
- Measure robot movement, actions, and health
- Triage reliability issues and route them to the appropriate software or hardware team
- Establish software reliability practices for internal teams and external customers
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
- Commuter benefits
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Onsite snacks and catered lunches