Senior Staff Electrical Engineer - Atlas Actuation

As a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer on the Atlas Actuation Technology team you will contribute every day to developing and improving our actuator products with your individual work and the mentorship and leadership your experience enables. With a role focus of Electronics Reliability Lead, you will be directly responsible for understanding the hardware defects affecting our actuator PCBAs, conducting failure analysis and setting priority for root cause analysis and fix development activities. You will be the first responder to most board failures and will coordinate downstream activities. You will play a major role in planning and executing Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) that will merge fixes into the BOM so future robots can avoid repeat failures and more generally help manage the higher level actuator product and technology roadmap. You will not manage a team directly, but be responsible for efficiently maturing the Atlas product as it progresses to and into production!
 

How You Will Make an Impact / Day-to-Day Activities

• Analyze board failures and perform root cause analysis on circuits ranging from high-power motor drives to high-speed communications

• Collaborate with production and test teams to drive design improvements that increase yield and decrease process friction

• Review and analyze data from robot logs, Jira issues, and automated tests to drive improvements into current and next-generation designs

• Propose and execute design changes/ECOs by revising schematics and layouts of boards using HDI, controlled impedance, flex, and heavy copper technology

• Collaborate closely with mechanical engineers to optimize robustness and reliability of a highly integrated and complex electromechanical assembly

• Be a primary contributor to the actuation product and technology roadmap, championing what improvements should be made when and what technologies need investigation to provide value on future products.

We Are Looking For / You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 7+ years of experience in a design, systems or sustaining engineering role.

• Extensive experience with Root Cause Analysis and general problem solving methodologies.

• Extensive experience collaborating across disciplines and troubleshooting issues that span mechanical, electrical, and software engineering.

• Extensive experience launching and improving products, ideally utilizing ECO control to do so.

• Exceptional organization and written/verbal communication skills.

• A proven track record of autonomously managing large, complex projects, for which prioritization and delegation decisions were left to you.

• A deep passion for mentoring and fostering a culture of excellence and best practices.

• Experience working in a collaborative setting, particularly in dynamic and agile environments.

• Comfort with project management and agile task management systems.

• Proficiency in schematic capture and layout in an ECAD tool like Altium

• Experience with PLM systems

Nice to have:   

• Experience using Altium

• Experience with Jira, JAMA and Smartsheets

• Experience using Arena and/or ENOVIA PLM systems

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.

The base pay range for this position is between $134,000 to $180,000 annually. Base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors including, but not limited to internal equity, job related knowledge, skills and experience.  This range represents a good faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Boston Dynamics offers a generous Benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401(k), paid time off and a annual bonus structure.  Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.