Senior Build Engineer, CI/CD Efficiency

About the role

We’re building humanoid robots that work in homes, performing tasks and freeing people’s time. Our mission is ambitious, requiring expertise in robotics, AI, and manufacturing. We’re at a pivotal stage where we’re ready to scale and hire. NEO is our flagship product, a home robot designed to operate safely alongside families. This role is for someone who thrives on solving complex problems and seeing them through to implementation.

Responsibilities

• Drive the performance, scalability, and reliability of 1X's CI/CD platform.
• Optimize engineering workflows, reduce build and test latency, and improve developer feedback loops.
• Build scalable automation that maximizes developer productivity while maintaining software quality and release reliability.
• Partner with all software teams to streamline development workflows and reduce operational bottlenecks.
• Establish engineering standards, tooling, and observability that provide actionable insights into CI/CD health, pipeline performance, and developer experience.

Requirements

• Deep expertise designing and optimizing CI/CD infrastructure for large-scale software engineering organizations.
• Strong understanding of distributed build systems, pipeline optimization, test automation, and developer productivity.
• Excellent software engineering skills with experience building scalable automation and infrastructure tooling.
• Strong systems thinking with a passion for improving engineering efficiency through automation and platform improvements.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and influence engineering best practices across multiple organizations.

Key Competencies

• Experience optimizing monorepos, distributed compilation, remote execution, and build caching technologies.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or developer productivity tooling.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with automated test infrastructure, parallel test execution, and engineering metrics.
• Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, embedded software, gaming, or other performance-sensitive engineering organizations.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and analytics for CI/CD systems and developer workflows.

Minimum Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience (Senior) or 10+ years (Staff) in Build Engineering, Developer Productivity, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Bash, or similar automation languages.
• Hands-on experience building and optimizing CI/CD systems using tools such as GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Bazel, Buck2, CMake, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting Linux development environments and large-scale software engineering workflows.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with automated test infrastructure, parallel test execution, and engineering metrics.
• Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, embedded software, gaming, or other performance-sensitive engineering organizations.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and analytics for CI/CD systems and developer workflows.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%).
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options.
• Commuter benefits (transit and parking).
• Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support.
• Onsite snacks and catered lunches.

Equal Opportunity Employer

1X is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, justice system impact, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.