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1X is building humanoid robots designed to work in homes, performing chores and tasks to give people their time back. NEO is the flagship home robot—a dexterous, safe system designed to move, learn, and operate alongside real people. The company is shipping production units and scaling rapidly.
The Hands team builds the dexterous hands that enable NEO to grasp and manipulate objects around the home. These hands are among the most complex subsystems on the robot, packed with motors, encoders, gearing, and sensors. Every unit must be rigorously validated before shipping.
As an Integration Engineer on the Hands team, you will own the test infrastructure that proves NEO's hands work reliably. You'll develop test software, stations, and procedures that characterize hand actuators and sensors, catch failures early, and maintain production confidence. This role bridges bench validation and the production line, requiring deep understanding of what each test measures and the ability to turn raw data into actionable root causes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Build and maintain automated pass/fail test scripts that log data, generate plots, and characterize hand actuators, encoders, and sensors with repeatable results
- Own and maintain test PCs and production stations, ensuring they remain healthy, networked, and running validated software
- Perform rigorous, data-driven debugging: pull logs, identify failure moments, and write clear root-cause summaries that drive design and process improvements
- Write repeatable procedures and build tests that technicians can safely and consistently run on live production equipment
- Design and build test fixtures and jigs that accelerate validation of hands, grippers, and high-cycle actuators
- Partner closely with electrical, firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to ensure design intent matches production reality
You'll need strong electromechanical intuition, production discipline, and a bias toward execution and accountability. This is a hands-on role requiring comfort with live equipment, rigorous procedures, and continuous improvement.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of professional experience in hardware test, validation, or manufacturing test engineering
- Experience writing software for test and test automation, including pass/fail test scripts, data logging, and plotting
- Strong electromechanical fundamentals: motors (FOC basics, torque, current, back-EMF), encoders, gearing, and friction
- Comfort working in Linux, including SSH, process and service management, and troubleshooting disks and networks
- Hands-on bench experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, thermocouples, load cells, wiring, and fixturing
- Embedded and firmware literacy: able to build and flash firmware onto boards and read C/C++ to trace faults to source
- Working knowledge of Git, including branching, keeping branches up to date with main, and opening clean merge requests
**Preferred Skills:**
- Robotics experience, ideally with robotic hands, grippers, or high-cycle actuators
- Basic fixture design experience, including CAD and 3D printing for test jigs
- Experience building automated test infrastructure, CI/CD workflows, or hardware-in-the-loop validation systems
- Experience supporting manufacturing, deployment, or field operations for complex products
- Familiarity with ROS, robotic middleware, or real-time distributed control systems
