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Systems Safety & Reliability Engineer Co-Op

Boston Dynamics, Inc.
Full-time
On-site
Waltham Office (POST) United States of America

Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiring viral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. We embody cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence in advanced robotics, quickly moving from the research lab into increasingly impactful roles across industrial spaces.

The Atlas Systems Safety & Reliability team, part of the SEIT Department of Boston Dynamics (BD), seeks a Systems Engineer Co-op to help develop the safety and reliability systems of the most capable humanoid robot system in the world.

This role provides direct interaction with a group of Systems and Reliability Engineers tasked with building a safe and reliable humanoid product. The team will include mechanical, electrical, and software expertise. The Systems Engineer Co-op reports to the Safety & Reliability Associate Director on the Atlas team and helps BD continue the development of the most capable full-body-manipulating mobile robots in the world.

How you will make an impact:

  • Work across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and software teams to debug, triage, and analyze system failure data.

  • Oversee and execute the integration of testing fixtures, including instrumentation, wiring, and configurations for extended duration reliability testing.

  • Test and validate assemblies and firmware for critical components of our robot, such as actuators, grippers, power distribution boards, battery management systems, sensing boards, motor controllers, or compute boards.

  • Assist in documenting and analyzing safety critical components of the system in accordance with functional safety guidelines.

  • Assist in designing and building fault injection test stands for safety critical components

  • Aggregating, framing, and presenting reliability and test data to leadership in order to support progress metrics towards program goals.


Required Skills & Experience:

  • In progress Master's degree in Machine Learning, Systems Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

  • Prior technical experience in robotics or automated vehicles.

  • Solid mechatronics fundamentals with hands-on experience designing, building, and testing PCBAs or subsystem test stands used for hardware and software validation.

  • Experience using electrical schematic tools such as Altium.

  • Experience in the test and debugging of complex electromechanical systems.

  • General experience in firmware, automation, and controls.

  • Data analysis and visualization.

  • Software tools including: Python, C++, Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Matlab, Arena, Altium, Solidworks, Catia v6, Raspberry Pi, Arduino.

The base pay range for this position is between $30 to $35 hourly. Base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors including, but not limited to internal equity, job related knowledge, skills and experience. This range represents a good faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting.