Staff Software Engineer in Test
Boston Dynamics develops and deploys highly mobile robots and fleet-management software for industrial inspection, warehouse operations, and manufacturing automation.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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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.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will design and execute reliability and automation tests that stress application resilience, safety, and fault tolerance. You will automate hardware-in-the-loop testing, author execution reports for milestones, and improve software quality assurance processes, testing coverage, execution efficiency, and reliability.
Requirements
- 6–8 years of experience in Software QA Engineering, Test Automation, or Software Development
- Experience with manual and automated testing of complex electromechanical systems and physical hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Test automation proficiency with Python, C#, or a similar language
- Experience establishing software reliability testing, monitoring, and analysis for robotic systems
- Experience designing test plans and executing functional, integration, and regression testing
- Defect lifecycle management experience with defect tracking systems such as Jira
- Understanding of CI/CD practices and experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
- Eligibility to work in the United States
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and plan reliability test automation to stress application resilience, safety, and fault tolerance
- Use physical hardware-in-the-loop to automate testing for application scenarios
- Author execution reports to validate milestone readiness and communicate system stability
- Identify software quality assurance bottlenecks and testing gaps and improve execution efficiency and reliability
