AI Residency

1X • San Carlos, CA

4d • $10,000

About The Position

The AI Residency is a fixed-term position (3-6 months) for researchers and engineers who want to work on high-impact AI and robotics problems alongside full-time 1X team members. Residents work on real projects—simulation infrastructure, data management, model evaluation, and capability deployment—that ship to production robots in the field. This is not an internship where you build toy demos: you will contribute meaningfully to the systems that make NEO smarter, and your work will reach hardware in homes and warehouses.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent; graduate students in ML or robotics strongly preferred
• Proficiency with large Python codebases, experience writing tests, and familiarity with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX)
• Demonstrated ability to prototype ideas independently and rapidly—a portfolio of projects, research, or open-source work is a strong signal
• Experience training large-scale ML models (visual foundation models, LLMs, generative models) or publishing at top ML conferences
• Fast, independent learner picking up new codebases, tools, and problem domains quickly; identifies the highest-leverage contribution and starts making progress without waiting for a detailed spec
• Research meets engineering reading a paper and implementing its key ideas, but also writes tested, maintainable code that others can build on; comfortable in both modes
• Prototype-to-production instinct moving quickly from idea to working prototype, then cares enough about quality to bring it the rest of the way to something deployable
• Collaborative contributor working effectively alongside full-time engineers and researchers, communicates progress and blockers clearly, and contributes to the team's velocity as well as their own projects

Nice To Haves

• Experience with systems programming and scalable data infrastructure
• Familiarity with robotics simulation platforms (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo) or robot middleware (ROS)
• Prior research or engineering experience at the intersection of AI and physical systems

Responsibilities

• Accelerate 1X's AI development by applying cutting-edge research to real product problems, whether that means building evaluation infrastructure, scaling data pipelines, improving the data engine, or deploying new capabilities to robots at customer sites.
• Apply research-level ideas to production impact translating techniques from the AI and robotics literature into capabilities or infrastructure that ships on real robots
• Build or meaningfully improve components of the data engine: front-end tooling for log review and labeling, back-end systems for data cleaning, and evaluation benchmarks for open-source models on robotics tasks
• Scale solutions using fleet data contributing to pipelines and systems that improve with more robot experience, not just more hand-labeled data
• Deploy at least one new capability or infrastructure improvement to robots at customer sites before the residency term ends

Benefits

• $10,000 per month
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and holidays

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level