Boston Dynamics

Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Perception and Safety R&D

Boston Dynamics$154K — $192K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years of experience in software development
  • Deep experience designing and developing robust data frameworks
  • Proven experience developing and deploying production code
  • Experience with machine learning and realtime perception systems
  • History of leading technical efforts through all phases
  • Experience in small, interdisciplinary teams

Responsibilities

  • Engineer robust data pipelines and cloud integrations for machine learning
  • Design dataset querying, logging, metrics, and curation features
  • Scale systems to track the quality and safety of perception systems
  • Own the full software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment
  • Collaborate with a small team on designing new product features for safe robot operation

Benefits

  • Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Paid time off
  • Annual bonus structure
Full Job Description
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Perception and Safety R&D Team, you will join a small cross-functional group focused on deploying production-quality robotic perception software. You will design, build, and maintain highly scalable data pipelines and perception system evaluation frameworks to characterize, evaluate, and improve our core safety algorithms across our entire product line of robots. Your work will be critical in enabling our robots to deeply understand their environment and safely function around humans

If you are creative, thrive in a small team environment, and passionate about a world where humans and robots truly work together - come join us!

How you will make an impact:
  • Engineer robust data pipelines, perception system evaluation frameworks, and cloud integrations for machine learning and tracking metrics
  • Design and build dataset querying, logging, metrics, and curation functionality to enable building and leveraging vast datasets of perceptual safety data
  • Scale systems that track the quality and safeness of the perception system as we work to bring prototype robotic safety system into initial deployments,; you will own the framework used to evaluate whether our robots are safe enough to deploy to a new environment or task
  • Own the full software development lifecycle, from requirements specification to deployment and ongoing maintenance, ensuring code quality and system reliability
  • Work closely with a small team to design and prototype new product features which enable our robots to operate safely around humans.


We are looking for:
  • 5-7+ years of experience in software development
  • Deep experience designing and developing robust data frameworks and scalable pipelines
  • Proven experience developing and deploying production code and working in large, complex codebases
  • Some experience working with machine learning and/or realtime perception systems, especially with large datasets, system-level metrics, and data curation tooling
  • History of leading technical efforts through planning, architecture, development, testing
  • Experience of working in small, interdisciplinary teams


Above and beyond:
  • Experience developing and deploying software for time-sensitive control systems, such as robotics. applied computer vision and perception problems.
  • Knowledge of state of the art in related areas including human detection, autonomous vehicle and driver assist systems, and robot safety.


The base pay range for this position is between $154,310 to $192,887 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 a annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.

About Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company is best known for the development of BigDog, a quadruped robot designed for the U.S. military. Boston Dynamics has also developed a number of other robots, including Spot, a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation, and Atlas, a humanoid robot designed for a variety of search and rescue tasks. In 2013, the company was acquired by Google X, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. In 2020, the company was acquired by Hyundai Motor Group. Boston Dynamics is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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1992

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