Boston Dynamics · 2 weeks ago
Staff Software Engineer - Perception and Safety R&D
Waltham, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$132K/yr - $181K/yr
5+ years expBoston Dynamics is a company focused on robotics and perception technology. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain data pipelines and perception system evaluation frameworks to ensure the safety of their robotic products.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)SoftwareRobotics
No H1B
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Company
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
501-1000 employees
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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