Senior Staff ML Engineer, Robotics & Agentic Systems

Boston Dynamics; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k)

Paid time off

Annual bonus structure

Job summary

Boston Dynamics is seeking a versatile full stack engineer to build and integrate Atlas capabilities, including context engineering, tool calls, and memory. You will work across backend and frontend layers, collaborate with ML engineers and product teams, and help ship end-to-end robotic software systems.

You will design APIs, implement observability, and develop dashboards to configure, test, and deploy Atlas applications in real-world environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong full stack background spanning backend and LLM integrations.
• Demonstrated ability to design and integrate APIs and third-party services in complex distributed system environments.
• Proficiency in modern backend technologies (e.g., TypeScript, Python) and data stores (e.g. Postgres, Redis).
• Demonstrated ability to ship reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software while utilizing agentic coding tools like Claude Code.
• Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where you're expected to own problems end to end.

Responsibilities

• Work directly on Atlas' agentic capabilities, utilizing VLMs, tool calls, context engineering, and memory to support multiple real-world applications.
• Design and implement observability, logging, and tracing infrastructure to provide visibility into system behavior and performance.
• Develop and utilize evaluation and benchmarks to measure reasoning quality, safety, reliability, and generalization across tasks and environments.
• Develop the operator dashboards, task configuration UIs, and diagnostic interfaces to help users build and deploy Atlas applications.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with behavior, controls and product experts to ship end-to-end capabilities.
• Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to understand real-world use cases and ensure solutions are practical, reliable, and impactful.

Skills

Full stack development

API design

TypeScript

Python

LLM integrations

React

Observability

Distributed systems

Memory/context engineering

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Claude Code

OpenTelemetry

Postgres

Redis

React

Job description

Boston Dynamics is seeking a versatile full stack engineer to build and integrate Atlas capabilities, including context engineering, tool calls, and memory. You will work across backend and frontend layers, collaborate with ML engineers and product teams, and help ship end-to-end robotic software systems.

You will design APIs, implement observability, and develop dashboards to configure, test, and deploy Atlas applications in real-world environments.