1X Technologies
AI Researcher
$250K–$350K
San Carlos, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 17, 2026
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field; graduate-level education or equivalent research experience strongly preferred.
About the job
Build AI models, data and ML infrastructure, and evaluations that help NEO learn from experience and improve its real-world capabilities.
What you'll do
- Develop multimodal world models and data pipelines for robot learning.
- Build and optimize distributed training, inference, data, and evaluation systems.
- Move research into production on robot hardware and measure real-world impact.
What they ask for
- Strong Python and PyTorch (or equivalent deep learning framework), with experience in large-scale codebases and data tooling and visualization.
- Demonstrated experience in at least one of the four AI pillars: model and data, data infrastructure, ML infrastructure, or evaluation protocols.
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Track record of impact through published research, production deployment in modern AI systems, or infrastructure that measurably accelerated a team's work.
Nice to have
- Graduate-level education or equivalent research experience.
- Experience with distributed training, large-scale data pipelines, multimodal generative or world models, inference optimization, or serving systems.
Pay
$250,000 - $350,000 (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TorchTitan, DeepSpeed, FSDP/ZeRO, CUDA, Triton, TensorRT
AI focus
Research and engineering for embodied AI, including robot-learning world models, multimodal data pipelines, training and inference systems, evaluations, and deployment to NEO.
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