Senior Systems Engineer - Atlas

The Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Department of Boston Dynamics (BD) seeks a highly talented Systems Engineer who is passionate about working with an exceptional team of roboticists to develop the world’s most capable, safe, and reliable humanoid robot. This Systems Engineer will focus primarily on electronic systems within the humanoid product ecosystem, such as computers, sensors, communications, batteries, chargers, and power management.

You will help develop and promote the Systems Engineering (SE) approach that spans requirements generation, architectural trade studies, performance attribute engineering, system analysis, simulation, design, integration, and testing. You will be innovating not only on product implementation of advanced robotic technologies, but you will also be helping with new approaches to the emergent SE discipline at Boston Dynamics.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Solicit requirements from stakeholders and subject-matter experts. Derive system requirements from stakeholder requirements. Perform research, analysis, and experimentation to ensure requirements are properly parameterized. Author and seek approval for high quality system requirements.
• Become expert on Jama tool functionality to customize and configure the tool in support of the product team’s evolving needs.
• Help develop a compatible set of performance targets, including safety, user experience, reliability, robustness, cost, package, manufacturability, and numerous functional attributes. Facilitate activities that accelerate product design convergence to these targets.
• Help author the evolving Concept of Operations, ensuring that the intended breadth of use cases are clearly defined for the product.
• Support system DFMEA execution. Support system trade studies and program technical reviews.
• Develop and maintain system interface control documents.
• Review requirements from other authors, providing coaching to achieve requirement quality expectations. Facilitate requirement approval and change management.
• Ensure requirements are well organized within the appropriate databases, traced to design documents, verification plans, verification results, and potentially other entities of interest.
• Track and report on requirements development and verification progress, identify holes, mitigate risks, and help drive issue closure.
  
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Exceptional written & verbal communication, interpersonal skills, collaboration, and conflict resolution.
• 3 years of experience systems engineering of complex mechatronic systems
• 5 years of experience in electronics technology development with proven PCBA, and product delivery.
• 2 years experience working intimately with a specialized requirements management tool. Expertise in Jama is especially helpful.
• BS in engineering (Robotics, Computers, Software, Electrical, Systems, or similar).
  
  

Desired Skills & Experience

• Mobile robotics, robotic manipulation, grasping, perception technologies, and walking robots.
• Experience developing complex electromechanical products for mass production.
• Authoring, reviewing, and approving a wide variety of requirements.
• Reliability & robustness engineering methodologies, including boundary and parameter diagramming, DFMEA, DVP&R, root cause analysis, statistical methods.
• Safety-critical system development.
• Working in automotive manufacturing and assembly plants.
• Highly relevant design domains include BLDC motors, motor controllers, encoders,, cameras, user interfaces, LEDs, 2-way audio, PCBAs, flex circuits, wire harnesses, connectors, slip rings, radios, computers, microcontrollers, batteries, BMS, and chargers.
• Software tools including Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Altium, Testrails, Python, Matlab.
• Familiarity with relevant electrical standards, IEC 62368, IEC 60204, along with WiFi, Cellular, and EMI compliance.