Boston Dynamics · 4 hours ago
Senior Staff Systems Engineer in Software
Waltham, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expBoston Dynamics is seeking a highly talented Systems Engineer to work with an exceptional team of roboticists in developing advanced humanoid robots. The role focuses on delivering customer-driven software systems and promoting a comprehensive Systems Engineering approach across various domains, including environmental perception and robot behavior learning.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)RoboticsSoftware
Responsibilities
Solicit requirements from stakeholders and subject-matter experts
Derive system and software requirements from stakeholder requirements
Perform research, analysis, and experimentation to ensure requirements are properly parameterized
Author and seek approval for high quality system requirements
Help develop, document, and build agreement to a compatible set of functional performance expectations, including User eXperience, robot taskability, behavioral reliability, and safety
Facilitate activities that accelerate product design convergence to these targets
Participate in development and documentation of the functional architecture of the product ecosystem
Play a leadership role in authoring the humanoid product’s evolving Concept of Operations, ensuring that the intended breadth of use cases are clearly defined for the product
Support development of quantified product usage scenarios and their effective usage in requirement verification activities
Support system DFMEA execution
Support system trade studies and program technical reviews
Develop and maintain system interface control documents
Review requirements from other authors, providing coaching to achieve requirement quality expectations
Facilitate requirement approval and change management
Ensure requirements are well organized within the appropriate databases, traced to design documents, verification plans, verification results, and potentially other entities of interest
Track and report on requirements development and verification progress, identify holes, mitigate risks, and help drive issue closure
Qualification
Required
Exceptional written & verbal communication, interpersonal skills, collaboration, and conflict resolution
5+ years of experience systems engineering of complex embedded mechatronic systems, or cyber-physical systems
Experience working intimately with a specialized requirements management tools. Expertise in Jama is especially helpful
BS in engineering (Robotics, Computers, Software, Electrical, Systems, or similar). MS in engineering preferred
Preferred
Autonomous vehicles, mobile robotics, perception technologies, and walking robots
Experience developing complex embedded systems for mass production
Authoring, reviewing, and approving a wide variety of requirements
Reliability & robustness engineering methodologies, including boundary and parameter diagramming, DFMEA, DVP&R, root cause analysis, statistical methods
Safety-critical system development
Helpful to have familiarity with software related to BLDC motors, encoders, cameras, user interfaces, LEDs, 2-way audio, radios, computers, microcontrollers, batteries, and/or chargers
Software tools including Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Testrails, Matlab, Git version control, Linux
Familiarity with one or more programming languages (e.g. C++, python)
Systems software design, architecture, development life cycle and processes
Familiarity with modern Machine Learning best practices, architectures, and workflows
Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts and best practices
Experience working in cross-functional teams, spanning algorithms, software, and hardware architectures
Troubleshooting/debugging issues between hardware and software
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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