Staff ML Engineer: Build Agentic Planning for Humanoids

Boston Dynamics; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Annual bonus

Job summary

Boston Dynamics in Boston is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to work on Atlas and advance agentic systems. You will design System 2 architectures for planning and reasoning above robotic control, enabling long-horizon tasks in dynamic environments.

Collaborate with behavior, controls, perception and product teams, ship end-to-end capabilities, and contribute to testing, documentation, and robust, safe autonomous software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant work on LLM-driven or agentic systems.
• Hands-on experience building or deploying agentic architectures (e.g., coding agents, tool-using LLM systems, autonomous task agents).
• A track record of improving agentic system performance through evaluation and benchmarking.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement System 2 architectures for humanoid robot control, including planning, reasoning, memory, and tool-use frameworks.
• Develop logging, observability and evaluation methodologies to guide performance improvement and measure reasoning quality, safety, reliability, and generalization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with behavior, controls, perception, and product teams 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.
• Stay at the forefront of agentic research and translate state-of-the-art techniques into production systems.
• Contribute to a strong engineering culture through code reviews, testing, documentation, and thoughtful system design.

Skills

Agentic systems

LLM inference

Planning & reasoning

Distributed systems

Software engineering

Tools

Typescript

Python

C++

Job description

Boston Dynamics in Boston is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to work on Atlas and advance agentic systems. You will design System 2 architectures for planning and reasoning above robotic control, enabling long-horizon tasks in dynamic environments.

Collaborate with behavior, controls, perception and product teams, ship end-to-end capabilities, and contribute to testing, documentation, and robust, safe autonomous software.