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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
• Intuitive sense of how to create test systems highly representative of product usage
• Setting risk-based verification priorities to mitigate program technical risks ASAP
• Ensuring comprehensive product verification planning & execution
• Analysis, simulation, subjective, empirical, statistical
• Benchtop, open-lab full-robot, in-factory/field
• Method development
• 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.
