Atlas SLAM & Spatial AI Research Engineer

Boston Dynamics; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Dynamics is hiring a research engineer for SLAM and spatial AI on the Atlas VLA research team. The role sits between real-time perception on humanoid hardware and offline reconstruction pipelines used to train and condition learned policies.

This is about giving Atlas a grounded 3D understanding of scenes, not just better image features. You would work on real-time SLAM, 3D reconstruction from logs and multi-view data, and connect geometric scene structure to training workflows for large

Qualifications

• Experience with SLAM, state estimation, 3D reconstruction, or spatial perception.
• Ability to work across robotics, perception, ML, and systems software.
• Comfort testing research code on advanced robotic hardware.
• Interest in connecting classical geometric robotics with large learned models.

Responsibilities

• Build real-time SLAM and perception-based state estimation for Atlas.
• Develop 3D reconstruction pipelines from robot logs, teleoperation data, and multi-view geometry.
• Connect geometric scene structure to VLM and VLA training workflows.
• Prototype spatial AI methods for learned policies.

Skills

SLAM

state estimation

3D reconstruction

spatial perception

robotics

ML

systems software

hardware testing

Tools

GTX?

Job description

Boston Dynamics is hiring a research engineer for SLAM and spatial AI on the Atlas VLA research team. The role sits between real-time perception on humanoid hardware and offline reconstruction pipelines used to train and condition learned policies.

This is about giving Atlas a grounded 3D understanding of scenes, not just better image features. You would work on real-time SLAM, 3D reconstruction from logs and multi-view data, and connect geometric scene structure to training workflows for large