As an Applications/Integration Engineer at the Robotic Metaplant Application Center (RMAC), you will serve as the engineering resource driving the transition of the Atlas humanoid robot into production-level automotive manufacturing. This unique role combines fleet management with application development. You will be the onsite engineering team responsible for the health of the onsite Atlas fleet while simultaneously designing the curriculum and playbooks that define how Atlas learns to perform complex sequencing and assembly tasks. Your work directly supports our long term goal to collect large volumes of high-quality data to enable Atlas’s use in automotive manufacturing.
Key Responsibilities
1. Data Collection Strategy & Curriculum Design
- Design and architect specific data collection tasks and scenarios to be executed by the robot operations team based on an in-depth understanding of Atlas capabilities and product goals for automotive manufacturing.
- Create detailed playbooks for each data collection task, ensuring high-quality, consistent data generation that meets strict QA standards.
- Develop success criteria and execute Operational Level Testing (OLT) and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) for behavior policies.
- Pilot Coaching & Evaluation: Provide expert feedback and coaching to Robot Pilots on best techniques; partner with the annotation team to identify and correct poor piloting trends.
- Collaborate with the Behavior team to implement best practices and provide feedback on system usability and performance.
2. Fleet Management & Technical Triage
- Serve as the "Robot Captain" and first responder for robot hardware and software issues, performing deep-dive technical triage to localize failures.
- Analyze system logs, telemetry, and Real-Time (RT) code to narrow issues down to specific subsystems (sensors, actuators, or firmware).
- Coordinate with Onsite HW Support as well as Atlas Fleet management and engineering teams in Waltham to resolve complex, systemic field issues.
- Own and prioritize the daily experiment queue to maximize robot utilization and uptime during core shifts.
- Performance tracking of daily and long term performance metrics. Metrics reporting into established tracking systems
3. Site Integration & Automotive Deployment
- Develop playbooks and processes for integrating Atlas into HMGMA and Glovis facilities, ensuring solutions do not overfit to site-specific workflows.
- Oversee site-level solution architecture, managing network infrastructure and configuration for robust system connectivity.
- Facilitate pilot execution in HMGMA facilities once applications pass OLT.
- Coordinate directly with HMGMA/Glovis stakeholders on data and workflow integration for pilot and production deployments.
Desired Skills & Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience: 3–5+ years of professional experience in field application engineering, systems engineering, or robotics operations.
- Technical skills:
- Proficiency in Linux (Ubuntu), including command-line management and networking telemetry.
- Experience with issue tracking systems (JIRA) and data-driven monitoring tools like Tableau.
- Automation: Proficiency in Python, C++, or scripting to develop custom tools, automate workflows, and troubleshoot integration challenges.
- Communication: Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, including research scientists, executive stakeholders, and daily operators.
Travel & Availability
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically to other potential Atlas deployment sites or to Boston Dynamics HQ
- Ability to support a multi-shift operation (6am–2pm and 2pm–10pm) as needed to ensure fleet continuity.
The pay range for this position is between $115,000 to $130,000 annually. Base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors including, but not limited to internal equity, job related knowledge, skills and experience. This range represents a good faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Boston Dynamics offers a generous Benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401(k), paid time off and an annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
- 3-5+ years of professional experience in field application engineering, systems engineering, or robotics operations
- Proficiency in Linux, including Ubuntu command-line management and networking telemetry
- Experience with issue tracking systems such as JIRA
- Experience with data-driven monitoring tools such as Tableau
- Proficiency in Python, C++, or scripting for tool development, workflow automation, and troubleshooting
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts for research scientists, executive stakeholders, and daily operators
- Willingness to travel domestically to deployment sites or Boston Dynamics headquarters
- Ability to support a multi-shift operation, including 6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm shifts
What We Do
Boston Dynamics builds advanced mobile manipulation robots with remarkable mobility, dexterity perception and agility. We use sensor-based controls and computation to unlock the potential of complex mechanisms. Our world-class development teams develop prototypes for wild new concepts, do build-test-build engineering and field testing and transform successful designs into robot products. Our goal is to change your idea of what robots can do.
