Job Details
The Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Department of Boston Dynamics (BD) seeks a technical leader and manager who will advance state-of-the-art Verification, Validation, and Test (VV&T) systems for the most capable humanoid robot system in the world. The ideal candidate has significant experience (in priority order) with:
1. Intuitive sense of how to create test systems highly representative of product usage
2. Setting risk-based verification priorities to mitigate program technical risks ASAP
3. Ensuring comprehensive product verification planning & execution
a. Analysis, simulation, subjective, empirical, statistical
b. Benchtop, open-lab full-robot, in-factory/field
4. Method development
5. Requirements quality assurance
This role is responsible for hiring and providing hands-on technical leadership of a rapidly-growing highly-technical team that the candidate will build. The team will include mechanical, electrical and software expertise.
How you will make an impact:
- Recruit, technically mentor, & develop a high-performing team with a healthy culture
- Develop verification engineering capabilities for BD, prioritizing capability growth where most critical for program success
- Action-oriented approach with exceptional execution
- Hands-on test method development, fixture design, execution, and analysis, along with their team
- Lead overall program Design Verification Planning and Reporting (DVP&R)
- Ensure exceptional product system requirement quality to enable exceptional VV&T
- Drive right-weight SEIT for optimal program performance, managing organizational changes of creating an innovative new department within BD
- Support system characterization and benchmarking activities
- Interface with other VV&T org units around BD to build corporate performance
Required Skills & Experience: - Familiarity doing V&V in a formal context. Desire to teach and instill best practices that will scale to the complexity of the product we're building
- Expert in translating tough-to-specify performance requirements into practical tests
- Resource planning, credibly advocating needs to leadership, and execute according to plan
- Exceptional communication, conflict management, and interpersonal skills
- 10+ years of test engineering experience
- 5+ years leading cross-disciplinary teams in the development and verification of robotic or similarly complex embedded systems
- 5+ years directly managing engineers and technicians
Desirable Skills & Experience:- Growing new teams
- Data analysis & visualization
- Failure Analysis
- Test fixture design, build, programming, bring-up, and prove-out
- Life testing
- Fault insertion testing
- Reliability & robustness, including DFMEA, DVP&R, DOE, root cause analysis, data analytics
- Internal lab management & outsourcing to external test labs
- Safety-critical system development
- Regulatory compliance
- Development of repeatable test performance correlating with subjective customer preference
- Highly relevant design domains, including DC motors, controllers, gear trains, bearings, encoders, force transducers, cameras, user interfaces, 2-way audio, PCBAs, wire harnesses, radios, compute, batteries & BMS, end effectors, structural housings & linkages, manufacturing IT & other infrastructure
- Software tools including Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Python, C, Matlab, Labview, Arena, Altium, Solidworks, Catia, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Mujoco
- Behavior & controls software: AI/ML, perception, planning, controls, fault management
- SQA
- Simulation
- Rapid-prototyping
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.
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