C++ Systems Engineer, Foundations

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C++ Systems Engineer, Foundations San Carlos, CA (on-site): About 1X: NEO is a humanoid robot that walks into homes, learns from video, and works alongside people. We need engineers who can make its brain and nervous system faster, more reliable, and more capable. The Role: You'll own the core C++ infrastructure that everything else runs on: sensor pipelines, motor control loops, inter-process communication, and the foundational libraries that ship on every robot. Your code executes thousands of times per second on hardware moving through the real world. You Will: Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput systems in modern C++ that run reliably on resource-constrained hardware Own critical real-time infrastructure: sensor fusion pipelines, motor control interfaces, deterministic scheduling, and the foundational libraries shipping on every robot Build the IPC and serialization layers connecting perception, planning, and actuation—lock-free queues, memory pools, shared-memory buffers, and high-rate logging that keeps data flowing without surprises Establish performance as source of truth through microbenchmarks, flamegraphs, perf counters, regression tracking, and tooling tha...