Boston Dynamics · 4 hours ago
Head of Application Software- Atlas
Waltham, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveBoston Dynamics is seeking an Engineering Leader to lead the Applications team for the Atlas Humanoid Robot program. The role involves delivering applications that integrate Atlas into real-world environments and ensuring engineering excellence while fostering a customer-centric culture.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)RoboticsSoftware
Responsibilities
Deliver Results. Build high-quality applications quickly which customers, integrators, and deployment teams love. Strike the right balance of building rapid prototypes for proof-of-concepts and hardened systems for mission-critical applications
Stay on top of - and advance - Physical AI technology trends. At present this includes Spatial AR interfaces, Context Prompting for VLMs, voice interaction, and MCP/agent integrations. But Physical AI is a rapidly advancing field, and everything may change in a year or two. Stay ahead of the curve and determine which technology trends will satisfy customer needs
Set the bar for Engineering Excellence. Establish strong standards for design, test, and execution across the team. Understand the details of the team’s work, and ensure that the team is consistently making good tradeoff decisions
Build and organize the team. Hire leads and ICs for the team. Decide on the right organizational structure to support multiple applications effectively. Refine team norms, processes, and communication channels as the team scales
Establish a customer-centric culture. Get the team directly involved with early customer deployments. Handle issues in the field with appropriate urgency. Build quantitative and qualitative feedback systems in partnership with the product team to understand how Atlas is being used in the real world
Collaborate with peers. Product Management, UX, Researchers, FAE, Support, and Customer Learning all need to work together to build the right state-of-the-art applications and to get them deployed successfully in the real world
Qualification
Required
Track record of delivering exceptional applications as a Team Lead, Manager, Director, or related role
Previous experience shipping applications in robotics, spatial computing, or other physical devices
You should be knowledgeable and even expert on some of the following: UI development: three.js, React, Android, iOS, Unity, Unreal
Networking Protocols: HTTP, WebRTC, TLS, MQTT, general IP networking
Backend Development: Kubernetes, VMs, Postgresql, Cloud Storage Solutions
ML Model Inference: Cloud hosting, Edge Compute, knowledge of common model architectures
3D Rendering: Kinematics and Transforms, Shaders and rendering pipelines, Gaussian Splats
Data Privacy and Security
Ability to connect technical details to high-level business strategy, and vice-versa
You've managed high-performing engineering teams, and can talk about corrective actions you've taken to make the teams perform even better
Even though this is an organizational leadership role, you should still have a technical edge. Being able to work through different architectural approaches, prototype new ideas, and effectively facilitate root cause analysis of failures would be expected
Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills
Preferred
Prior experience building agentic interfaces
Prior experience integrating with MES, WMS, or similar systems
Videogame knowledge and experience to help inform UX choices
Korean language proficiency
Company
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
Founded in 1992
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$37MKey Investors
SoftBank
2020-12-09Acquired
2019-02-06Series Unknown· $37M
Leadership Team
Robert Playter
Chief Executive Officer
Marc Theermann
Chief Strategy Officer
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