Senior Staff Audio Machine Learning Engineer
Boston Dynamics1 day ago
Waltham, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$180k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, refine, and scale DSP and machine learning pipelines for Acoustic Change Detection.
- Improve and modernize acoustic anomaly detection and failure-classification systems, including unsupervised and supervised architectures.
- Architect end-to-end multimodal pipelines for automated fault diagnosis and prescriptive maintenance.
- Integrate acoustic insights with visual, thermal, VLM, and LLM data streams into unified machine-health indicators.
- Benchmark, optimize, ship, monitor, and continuously improve solutions for industrial customers.
- Apply beamforming, direction-of-arrival estimation, multi-channel array processing, and synthetic aperture techniques.
Requirements
- 7+ years of deep practical experience in audio feature extraction, audio fingerprinting, segmentation, and machine learning applied to beamformed and raw audio for anomaly detection.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and C++.
- Mastery of NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, and PyTorch.
- Expertise in time-domain and frequency-domain audio analysis.
- Expertise in multi-channel array processing, including Delay-and-Sum, MVDR, null-steering, direction-of-arrival estimation, and synthetic aperture techniques.
- Expertise in unsupervised and supervised classification architectures for anomaly detection in real-world conditions.
- Preferred experience with cross-modal fusion involving computer vision, thermal imaging, or multimodal foundation models/VLMs.
- Preferred background in rotating machinery health monitoring, including bearings, gearboxes, and pumps, and familiarity with mechanical vibration/acoustic failure standards.
- Familiarity with TypeScript and modern web services for integrating work into Orbit.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k).
- Paid time off.
- Annual bonus structure.
- The position is based in the United States and does not offer visa sponsorship.
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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.