Boston Dynamics · 4 months ago
Associate Director, Humanoid Systems Safety
Waltham Office (POST)
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
10+ years expBoston Dynamics is seeking an Associate Director of Systems Safety & Reliability for its Atlas humanoid product program. The role involves leading a team of engineers to develop and implement safety and reliability strategies, ensuring compliance and effective risk management throughout the product lifecycle.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)RoboticsSoftware
Responsibilities
Work with employees and peers to develop effective safety and reliability strategies, efficient processes, and needed infrastructure. Identify and leverage best practices supporting the needs of a growing product team
Oversee safety and reliability engineering requirement development, lifecycle management, compliance forecasting, and verification
Support system risk assessment and management, including HARA, DFMEA, accelerated life and robustness testing, from robot subsystems up to overall product ecosystem (both verification and validation)
Lead or support safety case development, including coordination of supporting cross-functional evidence gathering
Provide training and coaching across the team to ensure every product subsystem is meeting S&R expectations. Justify, evangelize, and ensure product team delivery of all critical S&R requirements
Oversee failure analysis, root cause identification, corrective action planning, and execution to ensure rapid issue closure and reliability growth from early prototype system testing, customer pilots, field testing, and into mass production. Ensure issues receive needed cross-functional attention & resolution
Technical project management skills, including resource planning, work planning, risk management, prioritization, conflict management, change management, issue resolution, and progress reporting
Qualification
Required
Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills
10+ years of relevant product development experience
Deep technical expertise in the engineering of safety-critical autonomous systems
BS in Engineering (MS Electrical, Computer, Systems, and/or Mechanical Engrg preferred)
Preferred
Deep technical experience in product reliability
5+ years embedded electromechanical product system design and development experience
7+ years of experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts in applications of robotics, autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems, industrial automation, or related industries. This includes leading engineers, data scientists, failure analysts, and technicians; overseeing experts in systems, software, hardware, and testing functions
Experience releasing a complex electromechanical system into mass production
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with engineering teams and executives. Ability to author technical documentation, navigate deep technical analysis with expert engineers, and deliver high-level summaries to an executive audience
Experience developing safety goals, safety concepts, and safety cases, including compilation of data to support safety claims, especially for autonomous systems
Experience leading engineering teams through structured safety, reliability, & robustness methods, including HARA, DFMEA, PFMEA, DVP&R, DOE, Fault Tree Analysis, and root cause analysis
Deep knowledge of one or more relevant safety standards, including IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ANSI/RIA R15.08, ISO 13849, ISO 21448, ISO/TS 22440, and ISO TS 15066
Diagnostics and fault management. Fault insertion testing
Structured problem solving methods (8D, Six Sigma, Is/Is-not, Ishikawa)
Analysis of software log data to identify failure causes
Experience with corrective action reporting processes and systems, ideally across multiple companies, along with experience creating and improving such systems
Authoring, reviewing, and approving a wide variety of requirements
Highly relevant design domains include DC motors, controllers, gear trains, bearings, encoders, transducers, cameras, user interfaces, 2-way audio, PCBAs, flex circuits, wire harnesses, slip rings, radios, microcontrollers, protective padding & shells, batteries & BMS, end effectors, structural housings & linkages
Software tools including Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Testrails, Python, Matlab, Reliasoft or other statistical analysis tools. Data analysis using tools such as Looker or Tableau
Company
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$37MKey Investors
SoftBank
2020-12-09Acquired
2019-02-06Series Unknown· $37M
Leadership Team
Robert Playter
Chief Executive Officer
Marc Theermann
Chief Strategy Officer
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