Boston Dynamics
Senior Staff ML Engineer- Atlas Agents Team
$180K–$220K
Waltham, MA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Not able to sponsor visas for this position; candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.
About the job
Build and integrate Atlas’s agentic planning, reasoning, evaluation, and user-facing systems for deploying robot applications in real-world environments.
What you'll do
- Develop Atlas agent capabilities using VLMs, tool calls, context engineering, and memory; build observability and evaluation systems.
- Create operator dashboards, task configuration UIs, and diagnostic interfaces for building and deploying Atlas applications.
- Collaborate with technical teams, product experts, customers, and stakeholders to deliver reliable end-to-end capabilities.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong full-stack background spanning backend and LLM integrations.
- Ability to design and integrate APIs and third-party services in complex distributed systems.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture.
- Proficiency in modern backend technologies and data stores; ability to ship reliable, tested software using agentic coding tools like Claude Code.
Nice to have
- Experience with VLM-backed agentic systems, including context engineering, tool use, or model selection/fine-tuning.
- Experience with model and harness benchmarks, robotics systems, computer vision, real-time data pipelines, frontend frameworks, or observability platforms.
Pay
USD $180,000 to $220,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, Python, Postgres, Redis, Claude Code, VLMs, React, OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Develop Atlas’s agentic planning and reasoning capabilities using VLMs, tool calls, context engineering, and memory; benchmark reasoning quality, safety, reliability, and generalization.
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