1X Technologies
Senior Build Engineer, CI/CD Efficiency
San Carlos, CA · Senior
Stay score
odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$3,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
Community outcomes
No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.
About the role
- As our engineering organization scales, this team is critical to reducing developer friction, increasing release quality, and enabling rapid deployment of software to both simulation environments and physical robots.
- Establish engineering standards, tooling, and observability that provide actionable insights into CI/CD health, pipeline performance, and developer experience.
- Deep expertise designing and optimizing CI/CD infrastructure for large-scale software engineering organizations.
Responsibilities
- We're building humanoid robots that work in home - doing the chores, handling the tasks, and giving people their time back.
- NEO is our flagship - a home robot designed to move, learn, and operate in the real world alongside real people.
- We're scaling, we're 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Bash, or similar automation languages.
- Experience supporting Linux development environments and large-scale software engineering workflows.
Skills
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with automated test infrastructure, parallel test execution, and engineering metrics.
- Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, embedded software, gaming, or other performance-sensitive engineering organizations.
- Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and analytics for CI/CD systems and developer workflows.
Compensation
- $190,000 - $230,000 + Equity
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
- 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
Company info
- Improve CI/CD performance by reducing build, test, and deployment times across the engineering organization.
- Design scalable automation that maximizes developer productivity while maintaining software quality and release reliability.
- Optimize distributed build systems, caching strategies, test execution, and resource utilization to improve engineering efficiency.
- Partner with all software teams to streamline development workflows and reduce operational bottlenecks.
- Strong understanding of distributed build systems, pipeline optimization, test automation, and developer productivity.
- Excellent software engineering skills with experience building scalable automation and infrastructure tooling.
- Strong systems thinking with a passion for improving engineering efficiency through automation and platform improvements.
- Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and influence engineering best practices across multiple organizations.
- We've been at this since 2014 and we're at the point where the hard problems are behind us and the hard work is in front of us.
Equal opportunity
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- rd 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 ve
This listing is sourced directly from 1X Technologies's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.