Boston Dynamics
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer-Atlas
$120K–$145K
Waltham, MA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience or a master’s degree in a related field.
- Education
- Master’s degree in a related field is an alternative to the experience requirement.
- Visa sponsorship
- Not able to sponsor visas for this position.
About the job
Build and integrate Atlas’s agentic autonomy systems, interfaces, and evaluation tools to support complex task execution in dynamic environments.
What you'll do
- Develop Atlas agentic capabilities using VLMs, tool calls, context engineering, and memory; build dashboards, task configuration UIs, and diagnostic interfaces.
- Create observability and evaluation systems to assess behavior, performance, reasoning quality, safety, reliability, and generalization.
- Collaborate across engineering and product teams and with customers to deliver practical end-to-end capabilities.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience or a master’s degree in a related field.
- Demonstrated ability to design and integrate APIs and third-party services in complex, multi-system environments.
- Knowledge of modern frontend frameworks, backend technologies, and databases.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture.
Nice to have
- Experience building LLM products or agentic systems, or working with robotics, vision models, or real-time data pipelines.
- Familiarity with observability platforms and AI evaluation frameworks.
Pay
$120,000 to $145,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
VLMs, React, Python, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Develop Atlas’s agentic planning and task-execution capabilities using VLMs, tool calls, context engineering, and memory; evaluate reasoning quality, safety, reliability, and generalization.
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