Staff Strategic Field Application Engineer

Boston Dynamics; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Dynamics seeks a Staff Field Application Engineer to lead technical engagements with strategic accounts from first site to fleets across global operations. You will coordinate with Sales, Customer Success, Support, and Product R&D to translate field learnings into scalable products and playbooks.

You will own program governance, integration standards, and global deployment strategies, ensuring measurable value and sustainable account growth while guiding other FAEs and teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Business or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years in fast-paced technology integration, robotics, or complex systems engineering; 3+ years with a Master’s degree.
• Strong ability to communicate complex concepts to engineers, operators and business stakeholders.
• Experience overseeing high-complexity deployments across hardware, software and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery strategy for scalable, multi-site robotics programs, including design, infrastructure, and network integration.
• Serve as primary technical contact for strategic accounts, aligning cross-functional teams to customer goals.
• Own SOWs, governance standards and repeatable integration playbooks to meet regulatory requirements.
• Lead integration efforts across CMMS, asset management and analytics pipelines; diagnose and optimize performance.

Skills

Strategic integration

Communication & influence

Operational adaptability

Technical versatility

Resilience & autonomy

Go-to-market instinct

Industrial domain expertise

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or related technical field

Master’s degree

Tools

CAD

Python

C++

Job description

As a Staff Field Application Engineer (FAE) on Boston Dynamics’ Strategic FAE team, you will be the technical lead for our most strategic enterprise accounts, scaling our robotic solutions from a first site to fleets across global, multi-site operations. This role pairs deep technical expertise with business and Go-To-Market strategy: you are the link between program-level governance and on-the-ground execution, making sure every deployment delivers measurable operational value and opens the door to account growth. Working closely with Sales, Customer Success, Support, and Product R&D, you will turn what you learn in the field into the products and repeatable playbooks that let us scale.How You Will Make an Impact:Program Architecture & Global Strategy: Own the delivery strategy for scalable, multi-site robotics programs, from solution design, infrastructure, and network integration through global expansion planning.Cross-Functional Orchestration: Serve as the primary technical contact for strategic accounts, building consultative partnerships across customer business units and aligning Sales, Customer Success, Support, and R&D around the customer’s long-term business strategy.Governance & Standards: Own program-level Statements of Work (SOWs) that define scope, deliverables, and ownership, along with repeatable integration strategy playbooks that meet industry and regulatory requirements.Enterprise Integration & Escalation: Connect robot data and workflows to customer systems such as CMMS, asset management, and analytics pipelines, and lead diagnosis, resolution, and performance optimization across hardware, software, and networking during deployment.Customer Adoption & Value: Define adoption strategies that build customer ownership of their robot programs, and implement frameworks to measure operational value and fleet utilization.Product Influence: Lead early product testing with strategic customers, and turn field data and feedback into clear requirements that shape the Boston Dynamics product roadmap.Internal Leadership & Mentorship: Guide other FAEs and integration teams, using patterns in field data to drive continuous improvement of the global integration roadmap.You bring:Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.Experience: 5+ years of professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years with a Master’s degree, in fast-paced technology integration, robotics, or complex systems engineering environment.Strategic Integration Expertise: Proven track record of overseeing high-complexity technical deployments and managing the intersection of hardware, software, and operational workflows.Communication & Influence: Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to engineering teams, operators, and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment on project goals and impact.We ValueOperational Adaptability: Proven comfort in refining and optimizing processes to ensure global scalability and consistent performance across diverse sites.Technical Versatility: Ability to leverage CAD for site planning, navigate enterprise networking (VLANs/VPNs) during setup, and utilize Python or C++ APIs to customize robotic solutions and collaborate with technical stakeholders.Resilience & Autonomy: Comfort navigating the ambiguity of early-stage product deployments and the ability to build structure where none exists.Go-To-Market Instinct: The ability to recognize how a successful technical integration can unlock broader strategic impact and account expansion.Industrial Domain Expertise: Familiarity with specialized workflows in sectors like large-scale manufacturing and logistics.Location & WorkplaceCorporate Headquarters: This is an in-person role based out of our headquarters in Waltham, MA, offering direct access to our engineering labs and cross-functional teams.Travel: Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 50% of the time.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.The salary range for this position will be clearly stated in the job posting as required by Massachusetts law. The base pay range for this position is between $116,000-145,000. 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.