AI Researcher - Perception

The role

You will own perception for NEO from first prototype to fleet-wide deployment. You will build vision systems to measure robot geometry, recover human and object pose, and reconstruct terrain and scenes.

What you will do

• Recover robot geometry from camera data for controls and learned policies.
• Deliver depth and scene reconstruction for locomotion and manipulation.
• Ship human and object pose estimation models.
• Drive time synchronization and fusion across cameras and inertial sensors.
• Own intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration for production and field use.
• Establish datasets and metrics to evaluate perception changes on robot behavior.

Required qualifications

• Proven track record of shipping perception systems that run on physical hardware in the real world.
• Demonstrated ability to train, evaluate, and deploy deep learning models for detection, depth, or pose estimation in PyTorch.
• Deep experience with geometric computer vision, camera-based kinematic calibration, and camera calibration including intrinsics and extrinsics.
• Experience owning a capability end to end, from problem definition through deployment and iteration on real failures.
• Strong Python and modern C++ in large shared codebases, with solid testing and code review practices.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience, or an advanced degree plus equivalent hands-on experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with visual-inertial odometry or SLAM, including multi-sensor time synchronization and fusion
• Familiarity with robot kinematics and frame transforms, and how calibration error shows up in manipulation and locomotion
• Experience building and adapting segmentation and classification models, including fine-tuning open-vocabulary or foundation backbones for a specific domain
• Experience reconstructing scenes and terrain from video using differentiable rendering, neural rendering, or Gaussian splatting
• Exposure to automating calibration and validation in manufacturing, or to building field diagnostic tools for deployed hardware
• Familiarity with sensing beyond RGB such as radar, thermal, or near-infrared

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

About the company

1x is building humanoid robots that work in homes to do chores and handle tasks. Their flagship robot is NEO, a home robot designed to move, learn, and operate in the real world alongside people.