Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Job Description
Role: Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Hands
Department: Manufacturing & Production
Location: San Carlos, CA (on-site)
About 1X
We’re building humanoid robots that work in home - doing the chores, handling the tasks, and giving people their time back. Simple, but it’s not.
To do this right, we have to solve robotics, AI, manufacturing - at the same time, at scale, in a form factor that has to be safe enough to live with your family. If you’re inspired by this, you’ll thrive here. 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.
NEO is our flagship - a home robot designed to move, learn, and operate in the real world alongside real people. We’re not demoing it - we’re shipping it. We’re excited to meet you, if this excites you.
If you’ve spent your career working on problems that matter and want to see them actually reach the world - this is that moment. 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.
About the Team
The Manufacturing & Production team turns precision engineering into reality at scale - we’re the people who make NEO buildable, repeatable, and real. The Hands are among the most demanding parts of the robot to manufacture, and the work we do here directly determines whether NEO can do meaningful work in people’s homes. If you want your craft to show up in every robot we ship, this is where it happens.
Your Charter
Our mission is to create an abundant supply of physical labor through safe, intelligent humanoids that work alongside people. The Hands are how NEO actually does that work - and you own the manufacturing of them. As Senior Manufacturing Engineer for Hands, you take precision mechanical assemblies, electromechanical actuators, sensitive electronics, and final precision builds from prototype through volume production. You are the technical anchor for the Hands ME function, and the processes you design are what let us produce hands that are precise, repeatable, and reliable.