Atlas Controls Reliability, Senior Data Engineer
Boston Dynamics30 days ago
Waltham, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Combine high-rate robot telemetry, fleet-wide diagnostics, and operational metadata into robust failure-analysis data pipelines.
- Develop automated diagnostic tools that move the fleet from manual troubleshooting toward proactive health monitoring.
- Maintain automated diagnostic suites and off-robot systems that provide actionable feedback to hardware and software teams.
- Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand requirements and improve reporting mechanisms.
- Build and debug complex systems using analytics, telemetry logs, and diagnostic tools.
- Translate technical information into structured reports and procedures for engineering and operational partners.
- Investigate and resolve failure modes in the Atlas controls domain.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- At least one year of professional experience in robotics, hardware reliability, data engineering, or high-level technical support for electromechanical systems.
- Proven experience building and debugging complex systems using analytics, telemetry logs, and diagnostic tools.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for system analysis and tool development.
- Experience with data warehousing and visualization tools such as Snowflake and Looker.
- Familiarity with C++ in the context of real-time embedded systems or robotics.
- Ability to work onsite at the Waltham facility.
- Preferred experience with Jira and Jira Automation for project management, issue tracking, and reporting.
- Preferred experience with Bazel, Google Test infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, and Apache Airflow.
- Understanding of controls theory, electric motors, embedded systems, or complex hardware lab work is preferred.
- Professional or project-based experience with reinforcement learning or training datasets for supervised or unsupervised learning is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k) plan.
- Paid time off.
- Annual bonus structure.
- Onsite work at the Waltham facility is required.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics builds and sells mobile robots for industrial inspection, logistics, and research, including the Spot quadruped and the Stretch case-handling system. It generates revenue through hardware sales, software and service contracts, and fleet management tools for enterprise deployments. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company is majority-owned by Hyundai Motor Group and is developing humanoid robots for commercial tasks.