Jobs at Boston Dynamics

Owns the operating rhythm and business operations for Boston Dynamics’ 100+ person Prototype Operations organization. Responsibilities include business reviews, planning, dashboards, reporting, budgeting, executive communications, organizational events, cross-functional improvement projects, strategic initiatives, and leadership coordination. The role turns ambiguous inputs into structured plans, supports the Sr. Director, and drives measurable operational improvements across robotics prototype development and service functions.

Develops hardware and firmware test strategies for robotics systems, including automated Python testing, data analysis, root-cause investigation, fixture design, DVT, reliability, and compliance testing. The role partners with design engineers, builds and debugs electro-mechanical test setups, works with lab equipment and communication interfaces, and communicates test results. Responsibilities also include PCB rework, cable assembly, and supporting quality improvements, with up to 10% travel.

Design and develop ruggedized mechanical subsystems for Spot robots from concept through mass production. Own architecture, prototyping, manufacturing transition, documentation, verification, failure analysis, cost reduction, and corrective actions. Collaborate with electrical, manufacturing, operations, compliance, and test teams while using CAD, FEA, tolerance analysis, GD&T, and production engineering practices.

Lead systems engineering for safety-critical embedded robotic platforms. Responsibilities include defining architectures and firmware requirements, maintaining requirements-to-verification traceability, coordinating safety firmware and test teams, developing HIL/SIL validation plans, conducting HARA, FMEA, and FTA analyses, and compiling safety-case evidence. The role bridges hardware, firmware, and testing while supporting functional safety features, low-level communication protocols, board bring-up, and automated verification.

Build and integrate Atlas humanoid robot agent systems across harness design, context engineering, tool use, memory, evaluation, observability, dashboards, and diagnostics. Develop reliable planning and reasoning capabilities using VLMs and agentic systems, benchmark performance and safety, collaborate with robotics and product teams, and ship full-stack applications for real-world use cases.

Build Atlas humanoid robot applications across the agentic autonomy stack, including task execution systems, integrations, operator dashboards, configuration UIs, observability, evaluations, and diagnostic tools. Collaborate with ML, robotics, controls, perception, and product teams to deliver reliable end-to-end capabilities. The role requires full stack development using frontend frameworks, backend technologies, databases, APIs, and distributed systems, with an emphasis on agentic AI, robotics, testing, documentation, and system design.

Manage post-sales order fulfillment by reviewing order accuracy, scheduling deliveries, coordinating inventory and shipment priorities, updating ERP and order management systems, resolving fulfillment issues, communicating status to customers and internal teams, and supporting process improvements. The role also assists with urgent orders, follows fulfillment controls, and provides post-sales support to Sales and Customer Service.

Leads complex robotics prototype and low-volume production programs from planning through integration. Coordinates engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, testing, and repair teams; identifies risks and dependencies; removes execution blockers; develops scalable workflows and operating models; defines KPIs; improves traceability, build readiness, and manufacturing efficiency; and drives alignment across technical teams and senior leadership in an ambiguous hardware development environment.

Develop and deploy manipulation capabilities for Boston Dynamics’ Stretch warehouse robot. Responsibilities include grasping, motion generation, box selection, classical and learned robotics, simulation, on-robot testing, fleet-scale evaluation, production hardening, and collaboration with Product and Customer Success teams.

Manage enterprise hardware product initiatives for Boston Dynamics’ Spot robotic platform and ecosystem. Gather customer and market insights, define requirements, prioritize features and sustaining work, manage component enhancements and end-of-life activities, analyze product metrics, and support roadmap execution. Collaborate with engineering, design, supply chain, operations, sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams on product commercialization, pricing, service plans, and go-to-market activities. The role is onsite in Waltham with occasional customer travel.

Leads systems verification, validation, and test engineering for Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot. Responsibilities include building and managing a multidisciplinary team, developing risk-based verification strategies, leading DVP&R planning and execution, creating robust test methods and fixtures, ensuring requirements traceability, analyzing failures, supporting product characterization, and qualifying complex robotic systems for high-volume production.

Designs and manages data-collection curricula for Atlas autonomous behavior training. Responsibilities include translating training goals into pilot tasks, prioritizing backlogs, creating playbooks, tracking dataset completion, identifying blockers, coaching robot pilots, monitoring demonstration quality, forecasting prop and equipment needs, and maintaining documentation change control. The role coordinates closely with Behavior, Data Operations, annotation, and pilot teams while supporting scheduled and occasional off-hours operations.

Perform static and dynamic FEA on robotic components, learn CFD and thermal-structural analysis, support physical testing, improve simulation workflows, automate tasks with Python or MATLAB, document results, and collaborate with mechanical design and manufacturing teams to optimize robotic hardware.

Lead cross-functional operations programs bridging engineering development and scalable manufacturing. Manage Operations Core Teams, resource-loaded schedules, NPI build plans, production readiness, risks, priorities, change management, and stakeholder communication. Drive production-floor issue resolution, process improvement, and sustainable mechanisms across TechOps, Production Control, Supply Chain, engineering, and manufacturing teams.

Provides independent safety assurance for robotic systems across hardware, software, firmware, controls, AI/ML, perception, actuation, and human-robot interaction. Develops safety strategies, requirements, safety cases, V&V plans, acceptance criteria, risk analyses, and objective evidence. Evaluates releases, model and hardware changes, investigates incidents, supports corrective actions, and translates regulations into engineering processes. Partners cross-functionally on safety reviews, certification, audits, and readiness decisions for autonomous mobile robots.

Design and execute reliability, safety, performance, functional, integration, and regression testing for Atlas humanoid robot software. Develop test automation, conduct hardware-in-the-loop testing, monitor system reliability, report release readiness, manage defects, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and improve software quality processes and test coverage.

Design, develop, test, and deploy firmware for embedded systems and humanoid robot components. Responsibilities include C and C++ development, hardware/software integration, debugging, code reviews, technical documentation, and mentoring. The role requires embedded systems expertise, microcontroller experience, RTOS knowledge, and familiarity with development tools. Preferred experience includes motor control, Aurix, functional safety, embedded cybersecurity, and FPGA development.

Leads mechanical design and technology development for robotic systems from concept through production. Responsibilities include prototyping, cross-disciplinary system engineering, mechanical analysis, simulation, failure investigation, root-cause analysis, design validation, and production implementation. The role balances performance, manufacturability, reliability, thermal behavior, stiffness, mass, torque, and tolerance requirements while collaborating with electrical, software, product, and production teams.

Designs and maintains automated tests for web applications and autonomous robotic systems. Develops end-to-end test frameworks, Hardware-in-the-Loop strategies, test plans, and CI/CD integrations. Validates web interfaces, APIs, embedded software, hardware, navigation, autonomy, and payload operations. Collaborates across engineering teams, troubleshoots software-hardware issues, analyzes logs and telemetry, and establishes automated testing practices for the robotics platform.

Owns technical program management for AI infrastructure resources, including prioritizing GPU and compute allocation, overseeing data pipelines, coordinating data operations, and managing vendor-supported annotation and QA. Partners with engineering leaders and executives to develop resourcing roadmaps, mitigate compute and data risks, improve utilization processes, and support AI robotics initiatives. The role also manages data procurement and contract negotiations while driving cross-functional program deliverables.