Atlas Controls Reliability, Senior Data Engineer
Boston Dynamics•Waltham, MA
•$100,000 - $140,000•Onsite
About The Position
Boston Dynamics is scaling the Atlas humanoid fleet to push the limits of generalist robotics. As we transition to a large-scale fleet, the Controls Reliability Team serves as a Technical Force Multiplier. In this role, you will be an architect for mission-critical failure analysis data pipelines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, ME/EE, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- At least one year of professional experience in robotics, hardware reliability (SRE), data engineering, or high-level technical support for electromechanical systems.
- Proven experience building and debugging complex systems, using analytics, telemetry logs, and diagnostic tools.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for system analysis and tool development.
- Experience with data warehousing and visualization tools, such as Snowflake and Looker respectively.
- Familiarity with C++, in the context of real-time embedded systems or robotics.
- Ability to work onsite at our Waltham facility for direct interaction with teams and robots.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Jira, and Jira Automation, for project management, issue tracking, and reporting.
- Experience with Bazel, Google Test infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform and Apache Airflow.
- Understanding of controls theory, electric motors, and embedded systems, or working directly with complex hardware in a lab environment.
- Professional or Project-based Experience with Reinforcement Learning (RL), or working with training datasets for supervised or unsupervised learning.
Responsibilities
- Combine high-rate robot telemetry data, fleet-wide diagnostics, and operational metadata, into a robust pipeline for Failure Analysis.
- Develop automated diagnostic tools to transition the fleet from manual troubleshooting to proactive, automated health monitoring.
- Maintain automated diagnostic suites, and other off-robot systems, to provide actionable feedback for hardware and software teams.
- Partner with stakeholders, from all levels of the organization, to understand requirements and improve reporting mechanisms.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401(k)
- paid time off
- annual bonus structure
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
