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Materials and Process Innovation Engineer

San Carlos, CA$142.6k–$243.1kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

1X is seeking a Materials and Process Innovation Engineer to develop and scale manufacturing processes for advanced soft materials and polymers that enable next-generation humanoid robots. You'll bridge the gap between lab innovations and production-ready manufacturing, ensuring novel material systems perform reliably at scale while maintaining safety and cost-effectiveness.

What you'll do

  • Develop and optimize scalable manufacturing processes for advanced soft materials, polymers, elastomers, composites, and coatings
  • Transition material technologies from laboratory concepts to production-ready workflows
  • Improve process consistency, yield, and product quality through data-driven optimization
  • Establish relationships between material composition, processing conditions, and functional performance
  • Identify and implement manufacturing technologies for next-generation soft and functional materials
  • Collaborate across research, engineering, design, and manufacturing teams

What they're looking for

  • Materials processing and manufacturing science
  • Fabrication techniques (casting, coating, lamination, molding, thermoforming)
  • Experience with polymers, elastomers, composites, textiles, and multilayer systems
  • Material characterization and process validation
  • Experimental design and complex systems optimization
  • Manufacturing scale-up and production engineering
  • Advanced manufacturing techniques (additive manufacturing, 3D printing, photolithography)
  • Cross-functional collaboration
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1X

1X builds humanoid robots for home use, with its NEO robot requiring sophisticated hardware, firmware, and cloud systems. The company is hiring across compliance testing, audio systems, embedded firmware, cloud platform development, and supplier engineering to bring its robots to production and scale.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a specific material system or process you've scaled from lab to production. What were the biggest challenges in maintaining performance while achieving manufacturability?
  • Describe your experience with polymers, elastomers, or composites—what fabrication techniques have you worked with, and how did you optimize them for consistency and yield?
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