Atlas ML Software Engineer - Large Scale Behavior Cloning
Boston Dynamics2 months ago
Waltham, MA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$154k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build tools and infrastructure for data collection, policy training, hardware evaluation, and targeted diagnostics.
- Develop tools to query and analyze data, training, and testing performance metrics.
- Analyze and track failures in experimental robot runs.
- Develop simulation scenarios, tests, and data collection tools for robot software.
- Build internal tools and platforms that accelerate the collect-train-evaluate workflow.
- Create software that provides visibility into policy performance, data quality, and collection gaps.
- Support evaluation and rapid experimentation across hardware and simulation environments.
- Maintain and improve the code repository, including its testing, deployment, and CI/CD processes.
- Collaborate with research scientists, ML engineers, infrastructure engineers, data operations teams, and robot demonstrators.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience developing software for robotics, ML infrastructure, or related fields.
- Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with C++.
- Experience building internal tools, dashboards, or GUI applications.
- Familiarity with ML workflows such as training pipelines, experiment tracking, and dataset management.
- Experience working on real-world robotics systems in industry, research, or academic settings.
- Experience with data analysis and visualization.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, databases, Docker, and job orchestration.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Preferred: MS in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Preferred: familiarity with behavior cloning, diffusion policies, or VLA/VLM architectures.
- Preferred: experience building or contributing to evaluation pipelines for ML or robotics systems.
Benefits
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and an annual bonus structure.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
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.