1X Technologies
Principal Safety Engineer
San Carlos, CA · Principal
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About the role
- The Autonomy & Safety Engineering team is responsible for ensuring 1X robots operate safely, reliably, and predictably in real-world human environments.
- This team plays a critical role in defining how embodied AI systems safely interact with people, homes, and dynamic real-world environments.
- We are seeking a deeply technical Principal Safety Engineer to help define what safety means for a new generation of humanoid robots.
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
- Deep experience in robotics safety and AI-enabled robotic systems
- Demonstrated track record of safety innovation - novel technical solutions to meaningful robot hazards
- Experience designing safety cases, safety validation strategies, and safety test plans for complex robotic or autonomous systems
- Experience applying functional safety methods in service of product-specific risk reduction, not compliance alone
Skills
- Experience with humanoid robots, mobile robots, or other systems operating in close proximity to people
- Familiarity with robotics, machinery, functional safety, or autonomous-system standards - and where they fall short
- Experience taking safety-critical systems into consumer or in-home environments
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
- Identify hazards unique to our robots and their Operational Design Domain, and reason about them from first principles
- Invent new ways to eliminate or mitigate risk across hardware, controls, software, and AI behavior
- Find the risks others miss - the ones that emerge where physical systems and intelligent behavior interact
- Turn that insight into fundamentally safer architectures, controls, behaviors, and validation strategies
- Establish the engineering principles for safe humanoid design at 1X, and for an industry still being invented
- Deep first-principles reasoning across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, and AI failure modes
- Strong systems thinking, with the judgment to know where existing standards stop and novel hazards begin
- Ability to influence technical decisions across Hardware, Software, AI, Controls, Test, Reliability, and Systems Engineering
- Excellent written and verbal communication with both deeply technical and executive audiences
- Comfortable driving technical direction across multidisciplinary teams in a fast-moving startup environment
- 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.
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