Staff Machine Learning Engineer Agentic Systems
Boston Dynamics develops and deploys highly mobile robots and fleet-management software for industrial inspection, warehouse operations, and manufacturing automation.
Funding history
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About Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics, Inc. is a Waltham, Massachusetts robotics company developing commercial mobile robots. Its current portfolio includes the Spot quadruped, Stretch warehouse robot, Atlas humanoid robot, and Orbit fleet-orchestration software.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and implement planning, reasoning, memory, and tool-use architectures for humanoid robot control. You will develop evaluation and observability methods, collaborate on end-to-end capabilities, engage with stakeholders on practical use cases, and translate agentic research into reliable production systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience working on LLM-driven or agentic systems
- Experience building or deploying agentic architectures
- Experience improving agentic system performance through evaluation and benchmarking
- Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture
- Ability to build reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software
- Ability to reason about safety, failure modes, and robustness in autonomous systems
Responsibilities
- Design and implement System 2 architectures for humanoid robot control, including planning, reasoning, memory, and tool-use frameworks
- Develop logging, observability, and evaluation methodologies to measure reasoning quality, safety, reliability, and generalization
- Collaborate with behavior, controls, perception, and product teams to ship end-to-end capabilities
- Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to understand real-world use cases
- Translate state-of-the-art agentic research into production systems
- Contribute through code reviews, testing, documentation, and system design
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Annual bonus structure
