Boston Dynamics · 4 hours ago
Senior Staff Systems Reliability Engineer - Spot
Waltham, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$132K/yr - $181K/yr
5+ years expBoston Dynamics is seeking a highly talented Systems Engineer with a focus on Reliability Engineering to join their Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test Department. The role involves supporting reliability program planning, identifying and tracking causes of failure in products, and collaborating with teams to drive reliability improvements in complex electro-mechanical robotic systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)RoboticsSoftware
Responsibilities
Monitor, document, root cause, pareto, and prioritize resolution for design or process defects discovered during product prototype design, development, verification testing, customer pilots and eventual field deployment
Lead failure analysis investigations, driving root cause identification, prevention, and corrective actions via close collaboration with cross-functional subject matter experts
Develop mechanisms for prioritizing failure and reliability investigation
Lead or support DFMEA activities, driving lessons learned into new product designs, translating engineering design risks into mitigation priorities, including verification strategies, test methods and procedures, with well defined acceptance criteria
Create and integrate system and subsystem reliability models with targets that achieve overall product requirements. Author a cohesive set of reliability requirements across the product ecosystem and track estimated performance against them
Work with the System Test team to develop reliability growth testing strategies, including accelerated life methods, and appropriate sample size selection
Deliver executive presentations showcasing results, improvement recommendations, and implementation progress
Work with the Customer Success team to drive serviceability, maintenance schedules, and care plans
Qualification
Required
BS in Engineering or related field (MSME or MSEE preferred)
5+ years electromechanical systems design and development experience
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to deliver high-level summaries to an executive audience and navigating deep technical analysis with expert engineers
Ability to drive complex new electromechanical embedded products through test design, execution, and analysis
Hands-on failure analysis of electromechanical systems, as a design engineer, reliability engineer, and/or quality engineer
Extensive experience with corrective action reporting processes and systems, ideally across many companies, along with experience creating and improving such systems
Defining test conditions, generating acceleration factors using empirical models, generating test durations, sample sizes, pass-fail criteria, setup controls, and data acquisition
Reliability & robustness methods, including Six Sigma, DFMEA, DVP&R, DOE, root cause analysis, data analytics
Highly relevant design domains, including DC motors, controllers, gear trains, bearings, encoders, transducers, cameras, user interfaces, 2-way audio, PCBAs, flex circuits, wire harnesses, slip rings, radios, compute, batteries & BMS, lighting for communication, articulating arms with end effectors, structural housings & linkages
Software tools including Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Testrail, Python, Matlab, Reliasoft or other statistical analysis tools
Data analysis using tools such as Looker, Snowflake, and/or Tableau. Experience writing queries in SQL
Diagnostics and fault management
Structured problem solving methods (8D, Six Sigma, Is/Is-not, Ishikawa)
Analysis of software log data to identify failure causes
Benefits
Medical
Dental vision
401(k)
Paid time off
Annual bonus structure
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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