Softgoods Development Technician

Hardware FYI; San Carlos, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

Generous paid time off, holidays, and

401(k) plan with company match

FSA and HSA options

Commuter benefits

Disability and life insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Onsite snacks and catered lunches

Job summary

1X is hiring an entry-level team member for hands-on sewing, textiles, and elastomer work on-site. You’ll learn fabrication fundamentals by cutting, bonding, lamination, and assembling prototypes and fixtures that move into real products.

You’ll work alongside engineers and designers, starting with execution to spec and growing toward independent ownership as skills sharpen. This on-site role emphasizes practical craft and rapid learning in a team setting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with sewing, textiles, or elastomers.
• High school diploma or technical certificate or associate degree.
• Internships or projects in sewing/manufacturing encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Build prototypes, samples, and fixtures to spec.
• Execute cut-and-sew, bonding, lamination, and assembly tasks.
• Prepare materials and maintain shop tools; keep space safe and production-ready.
• Document measurements, process notes, and results for traceability.
• Collaborate with engineers and designers; seek feedback to grow toward ownership.

Skills

Hands-on aptitude

Care and precision

CAD foundation

Organization

Reading drawings

Textiles familiarity

Coachability

Communication

Education

High school diploma

Technical certificate / associate

Tools

CAD tools

Measurement tools

Job description

About 1X

Weʼre building humanoid robots that work in home - doing the chores, handling the tasks, and giving people their time back. Simple, but itʼs not.

To do this right, we have to solve robotics, AI, manufacturing - at the same time, at scale, in a form factor that has to be safe enough to live with your family. If youʼre inspired by this, you’ll thrive here. Weʼve been at this since 2014 and weʼre at the point where the hard problems are behind us and the hard work is in front of us.

NEO is our flagship - a home robot designed to move, learn, and operate in the real world alongside real people. Weʼre not demoing it - weʼre shipping it. Weʼre excited to meet you, if this excites you.

If youʼve spent your career working on problems that matter and want to see them actually reach the world - this is that moment. Weʼre scaling, weʼre hiring with intention, and we need people who want to build something that will genuinely change how humans spend their time - safely creating abundance for all.

About the Team

The Softgoods team is a group of makers, engineers, and designers united by a passion for creating products people love to touch, trust, and use. We bring together rigid and soft materials—textiles, elastomers, and foams—pairing traditional techniques with the exotic and unexpected, always with safety, a soft-touch experience, and a warm, welcoming feel at our core, carrying every product from first concept through prototyping to full mass production.

Your Charter

This is a hands-on, entry-level role built for aspiring engineers and manufacturing professionals with a real passion for sewing, textiles, and elastomers—and who want to learn the craft of softgoods from the people who do it best. Working alongside our engineers and designers, you'll cut, bond, sew, and assemble the prototypes, samples, and fixtures that carry our touch-facing components from idea to reality—building the fundamentals of fabrication, measurement, and assembly that every strong engineer relies on.

You'll start by executing to spec, then take on more as your skills sharpen, with mentorship and a clear path toward an engineering or manufacturing track.

This is a fully on-site role, as the best work in this field happens collaboratively, hands on materials, ideas advancing quickly.

Key Outcomes

• Support the team by building prototypes, samples, and fixtures to spec, learning to dial in quality, repeatability, and feel.

• Execute cut-and-sew, bonding, lamination, and assembly tasks accurately and consistently, following established workflows.

• Prepare materials, maintain shop tools and equipment, and keep the prototyping space organized, safe, and production-ready.

• Document your work—measurements, process notes, and results—so iterations stay traceable and repeatable across the team.

• Partner closely with engineers and designers, asking good questions and absorbing feedback quickly to grow toward independent ownership.

Key Competencies

• Hands-on aptitude — comfortable working with your hands and eager to learn fabrication across textiles, foams, and elastomers.

• Care and precision — you take pride in clean, accurate work and notice when something is off by a millimeter.

• Foundational technical sense — a basic understanding of measurement, tolerances, and how parts fit and assemble together.

• CAD foundation — a solid grounding in CAD, comfortable reading and navigating 3D models and translating drawings into physical parts.

• Strong organization — keeps materials, samples, and workspaces orderly, and tracks tasks and documentation so work stays repeatable and easy to hand off.

• Coachability and communication — you listen well, follow direction, ask when you're unsure, and collaborate easily with people around you.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience: 0-3 (internships, vocational training, apprenticeships, or relevant personal projects count)

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent; a technical certificate, associate degree, or trade training is a plus, or equivalent practical experience

• Examples of hands-on work—school, personal, or professional projects—are encouraged, in lieu of a formal portfolio.

Preferred Skills

• Cut-and-sew, sewing machine operation, or pattern work

• Adhesives, bonding, and lamination

• Safe use of hand and power tools and basic shop practices

• Knowledge of general machine shop practices

• Reading drawings or patterns, and using basic measurement or CAD tools

• Familiarity with textiles, yarns, leathers, elastomers, or foams

What does a successful 1X Team Member look like

Team members at 1X who thrive here are builders. They move fast, own their work completely, and treat time like itʼs the one thing you canʼt get back - because it is. They say what they mean, finish what they start, and hold themselves to a standard before anyone has to ask. We push each other to be better, and we do it with honesty and respect.

Compensation Range

$38.94/hr - $47.60/hr

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

Equal Opportunity Employer

1X is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, justice system impact, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.