1X Technologies
Senior to Staff AI Product Engineer
$190K–$280K
San Carlos, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years (Senior) or 10+ years (Staff).
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, AI, or a related technical field.
About the job
Build AI behavior systems that help humanoid robots reason, make decisions, and perform household tasks autonomously and naturally.
What you'll do
- Build an orchestration framework that interfaces with multiple LLMs and decomposes complex tasks into simple steps.
- Develop systems for extracting, storing, and indexing information about environments and people, and build decision-making frameworks.
- Integrate behavior systems with other teams and improve the realism, robustness, and adaptability of robot behaviors.
What they ask for
- 6+ years (Senior) or 10+ years (Staff) developing conversational AI, NPC behaviors, or system architecture.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, AI, or a related technical field.
- System programming and software design.
- Strong software engineering skills and understanding of decision-making architectures, planning systems, and autonomous agent behaviors.
Nice to have
- Experience with behavior trees, GOAP, hierarchical state machines, planners, or similar AI architectures.
- Familiarity with robotics, autonomous systems, reinforcement learning, or embodied AI.
Pay
$190K – $280K USD base salary
Tools
LLMs, MCPs, behavior trees, GOAP, hierarchical state machines
AI focus
Develop robot behavior systems, including LLM orchestration, context and memory management, decision-making, and autonomous task execution.
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