System Test Engineer

The Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Department of Boston Dynamics (BD) seeks an experienced System Test Engineer to join our Atlas team to help verify and validate the most capable humanoid robot system in the world. The ideal candidate has significant experience with:

• Intuitive sense of how to create test systems highly representative of product usage

• Working with design engineers to ensure testability of product specifications

• Developing test specifications that appropriately direct test system development

• Designing appropriately reliable and cost-effective fixtures that accurately deliver desired loading conditions for product systems and/or subsystems under test

• Programming automated test systems

• Test method & procedure development

• Test data analytical methods, visualization, and reporting

• Diagnostics and troubleshooting of testing & product systems

This role provides hands-on technical leadership and support of a peer group of test engineers and technicians. The team will include mechanical, electrical and software expertise. The System Test Engineer reports to the Verification, Validation, & Test Senior Manager and helps BD continue development of the most capable full-body-manipulating mobile robots in the world. 

Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiring viral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. We embody cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence into advanced robotics, quickly moving from the research lab into increasingly impactful roles across industrial spaces.

How you will make an impact:

• Collaborate, technically mentor, & contribute to the goals of a high performing test team

• Action-oriented approach with exceptional execution

• Hands-on test method development, fixture design, execution, and analysis

• Support program Design Verification Planning and Reporting (DVP&R)

• Ensure exceptional product system requirement quality to enable exceptional VV&T

• Support system characterization and benchmarking activities

• Interface with other VV&T org units around BD to share best practices and test capabilities

Required Skills & Experience:

• Test fixture design, build, programming, bring-up, and prove-out

• Familiarity doing V&V in a formal context. Desire to teach and instill best practices that will scale to the complexity of the product we’re building

• Expert in translating tough-to-specify performance requirements into practical tests

• Work planning, resource estimating, and execute according to plan

• Failure Analysis

• Life testing

• Fault insertion testing

• Exceptional communication, conflict management, and interpersonal skills 

• 3+ years working with teams of test engineers and technicians

• Specific title leveling dependent on years of test engineering experience & applicable capabilities

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Data analysis & visualization

• Reliability & robustness, including DFMEA, DVP&R, DOE, root cause analysis, data analytics

• Internal lab management & outsourcing to external test labs

• Safety-critical system development

• Regulatory compliance

• Development of repeatable test performance correlating with subjective customer preference

• Highly relevant design domains, including DC motors, controllers, gear trains, bearings, encoders, force transducers, cameras, user interfaces, 2-way audio, PCBAs, wire harnesses, radios, compute, batteries & BMS, end effectors, structural housings & linkages, manufacturing IT & other infrastructure

• Software tools including Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Python, C, Matlab, Labview, Arena, Altium, Solidworks, Catia, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Mujoco

• Working with product diagnostic software and fault management

• SQA

• Simulation

• Machine shop familiarity

• Rapid-prototyping

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.

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