Boston Dynamics · 10 hours ago
Senior Staff Systems Engineer- Stretch
Boston Dynamics is a company focused on developing industry-transforming robotic products. The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for defining and developing a new Systems Engineering approach, managing requirements, and facilitating integration and functionality across various tools to ensure product success.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)RoboticsSoftware
Responsibilities
Be a requirements champion! Solicit requirements from stakeholders and subject-matter experts. Derive system requirements from stakeholder requirements. Perform analysis and experimentation to ensure requirements are properly parameterized. Facilitate requirement approval and change management
Utilize Jama to document and support the evolving systems team needs. Support integration and functionality with other tools to ensure a single source of truth without the need for redundant data entry
Help develop a compatible set of performance targets, including safety, user experience, reliability, robustness, cost, package, manufacturability, and numerous functional attributes. Facilitate activities that accelerate product design convergence to these targets
Assist with development, documentation, and maintenance of a cohesive product architecture: functional, physical, and the allocation of functional to physical derived from the Concept of Operations Assist with development of right-weight Systems Engineering approach that best helps the team deliver an exceptional product within project constraints. Educate others on systems engineering benefits and methodology
Support system trade studies, DFMEA execution and program technical reviews
Develop and maintain system interface control documents
Ensure requirements are well organized within the appropriate databases, traced to design documents, verification plans, verification results, and potentially other entities of interest
Assist with requirement verification and validation activities as well as tracking and reporting progress
Qualification
Required
Exceptional written & verbal communication, interpersonal skills, collaboration, and conflict resolution
5+ years of experience systems engineering (requirements management, verification and validation) of complex mechatronic systems
Experience working with a specialized requirements management tool. Expertise in both Jama and Jira is especially helpful
BS in engineering (Robotics, Computers, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or similar)
Preferred
Reliability & robustness engineering methodologies, including boundary and parameter diagramming, DFMEA, DVP&R, root cause analysis, statistical methods
Authoring, reviewing, and approving a wide variety of requirements
Safety-critical system development
Mobile robotics, robotic manipulation, grasping, perception technologies, and walking robots
Working in automotive manufacturing and assembly plants
Certification in Systems Engineering
Experience with the development and documentation of product development processes, methods, and tool integration
Company
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$37MKey Investors
SoftBank
2020-12-09Acquired
2019-02-06Series Unknown· $37M
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