Senior Build Engineer, Automated Build & Release

1X • San Carlos, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

1X is building humanoid robots for home use, aiming to automate chores and tasks to give people more free time. This involves solving complex challenges in robotics, AI, and manufacturing simultaneously, at scale, and in a safe form factor. The company has been developing since 2014 and is now focused on shipping its flagship product, NEO. The Tooling team is responsible for building the tools, pipelines, and infrastructure that accelerate iteration and ensure software quality before deployment to physical robots. This team manages the build, release, and continuous integration infrastructure for various software components, including core OS, motion, AI, embedded systems, cloud services, apps, and simulation. As the engineering organization grows, the Tooling team plays a crucial role in reducing developer friction, enhancing release quality, and enabling rapid software deployment to both simulation and physical robots.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience (Senior) or 10+ years (Staff) in Build Engineering, Release Engineering, Developer Infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting and automation languages.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite, Bazel, Buck2, CMake, or similar build systems.
• Experience supporting Linux-based development environments and distributed software engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting robotics, embedded systems, autonomous vehicles, games, or other large-scale software platforms.
• Familiarity with cross-platform build systems, embedded firmware builds, or multi-language monorepos.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing artifact repositories, package management, release orchestration, and deployment automation.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience optimizing build performance, distributed compilation, caching strategies, or large-scale developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale the automated build and release infrastructure that powers software development across 1X.
• Design highly reliable CI/CD systems.
• Optimize build performance.
• Improve release automation.
• Establish engineering workflows that enable teams to ship software safely and efficiently across robotics, cloud, embedded, and simulation platforms.
• Design and scale automated build and release pipelines that support rapid software delivery across the entire software stack (embedded to cloud).
• Improve build reliability, build performance, and deployment efficiency while reducing engineering downtime and release risk.
• Develop automated testing, artifact management, versioning, and release validation systems that ensure software quality before deployment.
• Partner with all software teams to standardize development workflows and improve engineering productivity.
• Establish scalable developer infrastructure, release governance, and CI/CD best practices that support the continued growth of 1X's engineering organization.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior