Senior Robotics Test Engineer (Production)

1X; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) plan with company match

Generous PTO and holidays

FSA/HSA options

Commuter benefits

Onsite meals and snacks

Job summary

1X is building humanoid home robots. Test Engineering develops the systems that decide whether NEO hardware is ready to ship, spanning software, electronics, firmware, fixtures, and production operations.

The team owns stations from requirements through deployment, ensuring quality as scale increases. This hands-on role demands collaboration across R&D, design, engineering, and production to produce reliable, testable hardware.

Qualifications

• Background in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++, with willingness to work in both.
• Ability to read schematics and debug electronics at the board or subsystem level.
• Exposure to embedded systems, microcontrollers, or protocols such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, or EtherCAT.
• Hands-on experience with bench instrumentation (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, programmable power supplies).

Responsibilities

• Develop and own test systems for NEO's electronics and robotic subassemblies as they move from design release into high-volume production.
• Build operator-facing test apps with guided flows, pass/fail verdicts, and traceability.
• Improve station uptime, cycle time, test coverage, data quality, and deployment repeatability as production scales.
• Reproduce and resolve failures across hardware, firmware, software, instruments, fixtures, and processes.
• Connect results, serial numbers, board IDs, and logs into test-data systems for actionable insights.

Skills

Python

C++

Test automation

Root-cause debugging

Systems thinking

Education

Electrical Engineering

Computer Engineering

Robotics or CS related

Tools

Oscilloscope

Logic Analyzer

Bench Instrumentation

CAN

SPI/I2C/UART

Embedded Linux

Docker

Git / CI/CD

Job description

1X is building humanoid home robots. Test Engineering develops the systems that decide whether NEO hardware is ready to ship, spanning software, electronics, firmware, fixtures, and production operations.

The team owns stations from requirements through deployment, ensuring quality as scale increases. This hands-on role demands collaboration across R&D, design, engineering, and production to produce reliable, testable hardware.