AI Research Engineer, Scaling

Job description

AI Research Engineer, Scaling | Infrastructure Location: Palo Alto, CA (on-site): About 1X: We build humanoid robots that work alongside people to solve labor shortages and create abundance. The Role: As a Research Engineer focused on Scaling, you will design and build robust infrastructure to support large-scale training, evaluation, and deployment across 1X’s fleet of robots. You will transform experimental systems into production-grade platforms optimized for throughput, latency, and performance across both datacenter and edge environments. Your work will be pivotal in enabling high-efficiency learning and inference, directly shaping the performance of our general-purpose humanoid robots. Requirements: You Will: Own and lead scaling of distributed training and inference systems Ensure compute resources are optimized to make data the primary constraint Enable massive training runs (1000+ GPUs) using robot data, with robust fault tolerance, experiment tracking, and distributed operations Optimize inference throughput for datacenter use cases such as world models and diffusion engines Reduce latency and enhance performance for on-device robot policies using techniques such as quant...