Job Summary:
Boston Dynamics is seeking a highly motivated Senior Staff Control Engineer to advance the state of the art in robotics behavior learning and manipulation for their Stretch robot. In this role, you will work on developing learning-based approaches to improve robotic behavior planning and control, collaborating across research and production boundaries.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and evaluate learning-based solutions for robotic manipulation and behavior planning using techniques such as reinforcement learning and imitation learning.
• Leverage multimodal inputs (vision, depth, language, proprioception) and modern ML architectures to improve decision making.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure engineers to build and iterate on AI/ML development systems, spanning data collection, model training, validation, and deployment on real robots.
• Develop and maintain simulation systems that support large-scale data generation, model training, and performance evaluation for learning-based policies.
• Collaborate with perception, planning, and control teams to integrate learned components into the broader autonomy stack.
• Transition promising R&D prototypes into robust, production-quality systems deployed in the field.
• Contribute to the infrastructure and tools enabling scalable AI experimentation, as well as data and model management for continuous learning and deployment.
Qualifications:
Required:
• MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field with 8 years of industry experience or PhD with 3 years experience
• Proven experience developing in large, collaborative codebases (Python and C++).
• Deep expertise and hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: Imitation Learning, Unsupervised Learning, or Reinforcement Learning at scale.
• Designing data collection strategies, curating large-scale proprietary datasets, and developing data flywheels to drive continuous model improvement.
• Learned visual representations for decision making and manipulation.
• Multimodal learning, integrating vision, language, and robot states through specialized encoders.
• Experience developing and using simulations to support AI/ML workflows, including data generation and model evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge R&D and product development, delivering deployable technologies.
• Experience in technical leadership on a cross-discipline team, excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred:
• Experience with physics simulation such as MuJoCo, IsaacSim.
• Background in robotic manipulation or warehouse automation.
• Familiarity with on-robot perception and control integration for complex tasks.
• Familiarity with ML deployment on edge or embedded systems.
Company:
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation. It is a sub-organization of Hyundai Motor Company. Founded in 1992, the company is headquartered in Waltham, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.