AI Residency
San Carlos, CA$10k/moTemporaryPosted 3mo ago
About the role
The AI Residency is a fixed-term (3-6 months) position for researchers and engineers to work on high-impact AI and robotics problems, contributing to production-ready systems for the NEO home robot and related robotics infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Accelerate 1X's AI development by applying cutting-edge research to real product problems, whether that means building evaluation infrastructure, scaling data pipelines, improving the data engine, or deploying new capabilities to robots at customer sites.
- Residents are embedded in the team and treated as full contributors: you will own projects, ship code, and have direct impact on deployed robotic systems within your residency term.
- Apply research-level ideas to production impact translating techniques from the AI and robotics literature into capabilities or infrastructure that ships on real robots
- Build or meaningfully improve components of the data engine: front-end tooling for log review and labeling, back-end systems for data cleaning, and evaluation benchmarks for open-source models on robotics tasks
- Scale solutions using fleet data contributing to pipelines and systems that improve with more robot experience, not just more hand-labeled data
- Deploy at least one new capability or infrastructure improvement to robots at customer sites before the residency term ends
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent; graduate students in ML or robotics strongly preferred
- Proficiency with large Python codebases, experience writing tests, and familiarity with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX)
- Demonstrated ability to prototype ideas independently and rapidly—a portfolio of projects, research, or open-source work is a strong signal
- Experience training large-scale ML models (visual foundation models, LLMs, generative models) or publishing at top ML conferences
Skills
Required:PythonDeep LearningPrototype-to-production
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off and holidays
Last updated Jul 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About 1X Technologies
1X | Home Robots
We're an AI and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California. We create safe humanoid robots that do your chores and offer personalized assistance.
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