Boston Dynamics
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Systems
$155K–$235K
Waltham Office (POST) · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Build agentic planning and reasoning systems that enable Atlas humanoid robots to complete long-horizon tasks in dynamic environments.
What you'll do
- Design and implement system architectures for planning, reasoning, memory, and tool use.
- Develop logging, observability, and evaluation methods to measure performance, safety, reliability, and generalization.
- Collaborate across engineering and product teams to ship capabilities and translate agentic research into production systems.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant work on LLM-driven or agentic systems.
- Hands-on experience building or deploying agentic architectures.
- Track record of improving agentic system performance through evaluation and benchmarking.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture; ability to ship reliable, well-tested software and reason about safety and robustness.
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics systems, vision models, and VLAs.
- Proficiency in Typescript, Python and/or C++; knowledge of coding agents or research/open-source contributions.
Pay
$155,000 to $235,000 annually (USD, base salary)
Tools
LLM, Typescript, Python, C++, VLM, VLAs
AI focus
Develop agentic architectures for humanoid robots, including long-horizon planning, reasoning, memory, tool use, and VLM inference; evaluate safety, reliability, and performance.
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