Perception AI Researcher for Real-World Home Robots

1X; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

Generous PTO

401(k) with company match

FSA/HSA options

Commuter benefits

Onsite snacks

Job summary

1X is developing NEO, a home humanoid robot designed to move, learn, and operate around people. The Motion team builds perception to understand surroundings, enabling safe, practical tasks at home, from crawling to lifting with the body.

This role focuses on perception from initial prototype to fleet-wide deployment. You will engineer vision systems, calibrate cameras, and fuse data to enable accurate pose estimation and scene understanding, directly impacting real-world robot performance across

Qualifications

• Proven track record of shipping perception systems on real hardware
• Demonstrated ability to train, evaluate, and deploy deep learning models for detection, depth, or pose estimation in PyTorch
• Deep experience with geometric computer vision, camera-based kinematic calibration and intrinsics/extrinsics
• Experience owning a capability end to end from problem definition to deployment and iteration on real failures
• Strong Python and modern C++ in large shared codebases with testing and code review practices
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience, or an advanced degree plus equivalent hands-on experience

Responsibilities

• Own perception for NEO from prototype to fleet deployment.
• Build vision systems to measure robot geometry, recover poses, and reconstruct terrain and scenes.
• Measure impact on deployed robots, not just benchmarks.
• Deliver depth and scene reconstruction for locomotion and manipulation.
• Ship pose estimation models for large-scale data labeling and motion generation.
• Drive sensor fusion and time synchronization across cameras and inertial sensors.

Skills

Python

C++

Deep learning

Geometric vision

PyTorch

SLAM

Education

Advanced degree (MS/PhD)

Tools

Camera calibration tools

Differentiable rendering

Job description

1X is developing NEO, a home humanoid robot designed to move, learn, and operate around people. The Motion team builds perception to understand surroundings, enabling safe, practical tasks at home, from crawling to lifting with the body.

This role focuses on perception from initial prototype to fleet-wide deployment. You will engineer vision systems, calibrate cameras, and fuse data to enable accurate pose estimation and scene understanding, directly impacting real-world robot performance across