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Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Perception, R&D

You will design and maintain scalable data pipelines and perception system evaluation frameworks to improve core safety algorithms for robotics. Additionally, you will own the full software development lifecycle and collaborate with a cross-functional team to ensure robots operate safely around humans.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

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About the role

What will you do at Boston Dynamics?

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer on the Perception and Safety R&D Team, you will join a small cross-functional group focused on deploying production-quality robotic perception software. You will design, build, and maintain highly scalable data pipelines and perception system evaluation frameworks to characterize, evaluate, and improve our core safety algorithms across our entire product line of robots.

Your work will be critical in enabling our robots to deeply understand their environment and safely function around humans If you are creative, thrive in a small team environment, and passionate about a world where humans and robots truly work together - come join us!

How you will make an impact: Engineer robust data pipelines, perception system evaluation frameworks, and cloud integrations for machine learning and tracking metrics Design and build dataset querying, logging, metrics, and curation functionality to enable building and leveraging vast datasets of perceptual safety data Scale systems that track the quality and safeness of the perception system as we work to bring prototype robotic safety system into initial deployments,; you will own the framework used to evaluate whether our robots are safe enough to deploy to a new environment or task Own the full software development lifecycle, from requirements specification to deployment and ongoing maintenance, ensuring code quality and system reliability Work closely with a small team to design and prototype new product features which enable our robots to operate safely around humans.

We are looking for: 5-8+ years of experience in software development Deep experience designing and developing robust data frameworks and scalable pipelines Proven experience developing and deploying production code and working in large, complex codebases Some experience working with machine learning and/or realtime perception systems, especially with large datasets, system-level metrics, and data curation tooling History of leading technical efforts through planning, architecture, development, testing Experience of working in small, interdisciplinary teams Above and beyond: Experience developing and deploying software for time-sensitive control systems, such as robotics. applied computer vision and perception problems.

Knowledge of state of the art in related areas including human detection, autonomous vehicle and driver assist systems, and robot safety. The base pay range for this position is between $154,310 to $192,887 annually. 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. Boston Dynamics offers a generous Benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401(k), paid time off and a annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position. We are growing rapidly, building a commercial company that delivers cutting edge technology and solutions to our customers from industrial applications to logistics and warehouse solutions.

Which skills does this role require?

Software developmentData pipelinesPerception systemsMachine learningRoboticsSystem evaluationCloud integrationDataset curationMetrics trackingCode qualitySystem reliabilityComputer visionAutonomous vehiclesRobot safetyTechnical leadershipArchitectureSoftware EngineeringPerceptionSafety R&DData PipelinesMachine LearningCloud IntegrationComputer VisionAutonomous VehiclesSystem MetricsDataset CurationSoftware Development LifecycleTechnical ArchitectureReal-time SystemsHuman DetectionProduction CodeScalable SystemsSafety AlgorithmsCross-functional TeamPrototyping

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