Job Description

AI Residency
Location: Palo Alto, CA (on-site)

About 1X

We build humanoid robots that work alongside people to solve labor shortages and create abundance.

The Role
The AI Residency is a fixed-term (3–6 months) position where you will work on high-impact AI and robotics projects alongside full-time team members. You will help build infrastructure for simulation, data management, and learning, and bring research-level ideas into production. This role provides an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to deployed robotic systems while gaining hands-on experience at the intersection of AI and robotics.

Requirements

You Will

• Apply cutting-edge research from the AI and robotics community to real-world product applications

• Scale solutions using robot fleet data

• Build evaluations to benchmark open-source models on relevant tasks

• Develop and maintain the “data engine” including front-end UI and back-end systems for log review, data cleaning, and labeling

• Deploy new capabilities to robots at customer sites

Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent; graduate-level students in ML or robotics preferred

• Proficiency with large Python codebases and experience writing tests

• Ability to prototype ideas independently and rapidly

• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX

• Fast learner and independent contributor

• Capable of conducting ML research and building scalable infrastructure

• Experience with systems programming

• Experience training large-scale ML models (e.g., visual foundation models, LLMs, generative models) or publishing in top ML conferences

Benefits & Compensation

• Salary Range: $10,000 per month

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) with company match

• Paid time off and holidays

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, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.