Senior Systems Reliability Engineer - Spot

The Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Department of Boston Dynamics seeks a highly talented Systems Engineer with Reliability Engineering focus to develop the most capable, reliable, and robust mobile robotic system in the world.

Requirements

• BS in Engineering or related field (MSME or MSEE preferred)
• 5+ years electromechanical systems design and development experience
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to deliver high-level summaries to an executive audience and navigating deep technical analysis with expert engineers
• Ability to drive complex new electromechanical embedded products through test design, execution, and analysis
• Hands-on failure analysis of electromechanical systems, as a design engineer, reliability engineer, and/or quality engineer
• Extensive experience with corrective action reporting processes and systems, ideally across many companies, along with experience creating and improving such systems
• Defining test conditions, generating acceleration factors using empirical models, generating test durations, sample sizes, pass-fail criteria, setup controls, and data acquisition
• Reliability & robustness methods, including Six Sigma, DFMEA, DVP&R, DOE, root cause analysis, data analytics
• Highly relevant design domains, including DC motors, controllers, gear trains, bearings, encoders, transducers, cameras, user interfaces, 2-way audio, PCBAs, flex circuits, wire harnesses, slip rings, radios, compute, batteries & BMS, lighting for communication, articulating arms with end effectors, structural housings & linkages
• Software tools including Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Testrail, Python, Matlab, Reliasoft or other statistical analysis tools
• Data analysis using tools such as Looker, Snowflake, and/or Tableau. Experience writing queries in SQL
• Diagnostics and fault management
• Structured problem solving methods (8D, Six Sigma, Is/Is-not, Ishikawa)
• Analysis of software log data to identify failure causes

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Annual bonus structure