RMAC Applications Engineering Lead
- Team Leadership & Strategic Coordination
- Manage and mentor a team of Applications/Integration Engineers to ensure day-to-day operations align with Boston Dynamics’ product strategy and automotive industry requirements.
- Act as the primary technical bridge between the Atlas Engineering and Product teams and local Operations/Hardware SMEs.
- Collaborate directly with the Atlas product and behavior teams to implement best practices and provide critical field feedback on system performance and usability.
- Coordinate with HMGMA and Glovis stakeholders on data and workflow integration of Atlas products
- Data Architecture & Curriculum Design
- Lead the process development for consistent collection of high quality data and creation of test scenarios executed by the onsite robot operations team.
- Own the creation of detailed playbooks for data collection, ensuring that all generated data meets QA standards for the 10,000-hour collection goal.
- Define success criteria and oversee the execution of Operational Level Testing (OLT) and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) for behavior policies.
- Playbook Development: Ensure that playbook creation process and content maintains alignment across Atlas operations within BD and at partner sites
- Pilot Coaching & Evaluation: Provide expert feedback and coaching to Robot Pilots on best techniques; partner with the annotation team to identify and correct poor piloting trends.
- Fleet Mission Control (Robot Captain)
- Serve as the mission lead for robot health, uptime, and hardware utilization across the RMAC fleet.
- Oversee high-level technical triage, localizing complex system failures across hardware and software boundaries to determine escalation paths.
- Prioritize the daily experiment queue to maximize hardware throughput and balance progress with operational risk.
- Coordinate with onsite HW support and Waltham-based engineering to resolve systemic field issues and track fleet reliability metrics (MTBF, MTBR).
- Site Integration & Deployment
- Develop the processes and practices required to integrate Atlas into active automotive manufacturing environments.
- Oversee site-level solution architecture, including the management of secure network infrastructure for robust system connectivity.
- Facilitate pilot execution in HMGMA facilities once applications have successfully passed OLT.
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience: 5–7+ years of professional experience in robotics operations, systems engineering, or field application engineering, with at least 2 years in a lead or supervisory capacity.
- Technical Proficiency:
- Deep understanding of robotics systems, including software stacks, controls, and electromechanical hardware interfaces.
- Expertise in Linux (Ubuntu), networking telemetry, and reading/interpreting Real-Time (RT) code.
- Proficiency in Python, C++, or scripting for automating workflows and troubleshooting.
- Mastery of JIRA for issue tracking and Tableau for data-driven monitoring.
- Communication: Exceptional ability to translate high-level R&D concepts into actionable information for executive stakeholders and daily operators.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically to other potential Atlas deployment sites or to Boston Dynamics HQ
- Ability to support a multi-shift operation (6am–2pm and 2pm–10pm) as needed to ensure fleet continuity.
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