1X Technologies
Staff Software Engineer - Applied AI
$250K–$300K
San Carlos, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience; a meaningful portion spent building and shipping ML- or AI-powered systems in production.
About the job
Build and ship platform APIs and production systems that support AI world-model training data, evaluation, and inference for the NEO robot.
What you'll do
- Develop data validation, auto-captioning and annotation APIs, plus data pipelines and evaluation systems integrated with simulators and robot hardware.
- Design, build, and optimize production AI world-model features from data collection through inference for latency, cost, and quality.
- Partner with researchers, engineers, and customers to deliver reliable, usable systems and guide technical recommendations.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a meaningful portion building and shipping ML- or AI-powered systems in production.
- Strong programming skills in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience building expandable, testable, reliable software.
- Hands-on experience with modern AI/ML, AI frameworks, and cloud deployment.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills to lead projects independently.
Nice to have
- Experience shipping AI/ML systems at high scale.
- Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects or publications; domain experience in robotics.
Pay
$250K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
AI focus
Build platform systems for world-model training data, evaluation, captioning, and inference; integrate AI into the robot software stack.
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