Senior to Staff AI Product Engineer
San Carlos, CA$190k - $280kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Build and orchestrate AI-driven behavior systems for the NEO home robot, focusing on scalable AI architectures, multi-LLM orchestration, and autonomous decision-making in real-world environments.
Responsibilities
- Build the behavior systems that bring humanoid robots to life. You will design scalable AI architectures that enable robots to reason about their environment, make autonomous decisions, manage competing goals, and perform complex tasks in real-world homes.
- You will build the systems that orchestrate multiple ML models with varying capabilities.
- Your work will create robots that behave naturally and reliably in real world situations.
- Build an orchestration framework that interfaces with multiple LLMs, breaking complex tasks into simple steps.
- Build systems that extract, store and index relevant details about environments and people.
- Build decision-making frameworks using behavior trees, hierarchical state machines, or similar AI architectures.
- Partner with Core, World Model, Apps, and Motion teams to integrate behavior systems into real-world robot operation.
- Improve the realism, robustness, and adaptability of robot behaviors while establishing engineering best practices for large-scale behavior development.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional experience (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.
Skills
Required:LLM orchestration and multi-model integrationDecision-making architectures (behavior trees, hierarchical state machines)
Nice to have:Robotics and embodied AI
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
- 401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options
- Commuter benefits (transit and parking)
- Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support
- Onsite snacks and catered lunches
Last updated Sep 20, 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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