Boston Dynamics
Atlas Controls Reliability, Senior Data Engineer
$100K–$140K
Waltham Office (POST) · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- At least one year of professional experience in one of the listed fields.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, ME/EE, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
About the job
Builds and maintains data pipelines and automated diagnostic tools to analyze Atlas robot failures, monitor fleet health, and provide actionable reporting to engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Combine robot telemetry, fleet diagnostics, and operational metadata into failure-analysis pipelines.
- Develop and maintain automated diagnostic tools and suites for proactive health monitoring.
- Partner with stakeholders to improve reporting and provide actionable feedback to hardware and software teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, ME/EE, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- At least one year of professional experience in robotics, hardware reliability (SRE), data engineering, or high-level technical support for electromechanical systems.
- Proven experience building and debugging complex systems using analytics, telemetry logs, and diagnostic tools.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with data warehousing and visualization tools such as Snowflake and Looker; familiarity with C++ in real-time embedded systems or robotics.
Nice to have
- Experience with Jira and Jira Automation; Bazel, Google Test infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, or Apache Airflow.
- Understanding of controls theory, electric motors, and embedded systems or lab work with complex hardware; professional or project-based reinforcement learning or training-dataset experience.
Pay
$100,000 to $140,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, Snowflake, Looker, C++, Jira, Jira Automation, Bazel
AI focus
Preferred experience includes reinforcement learning or working with training datasets for supervised or unsupervised learning.
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