Electrical Engineer-Spot

As an Electrical Engineer on the Spot electrical sustaining team, you will work on the electronics for all fielded versions of Boston Dynamics' quadruped mobile robots, payloads, and accessories. You will iterate circuit board designs, investigate challenging field and production failures, address component obsolescence issues, and qualify first articles. You will be a key member of the larger electrical team consisting of experts spanning RF, analog, power, and embedded computing that you can leverage and learn from. You may support the broader team with new design work, design review, and design verification testing (DVT). Limited international travel may be required to visit contract manufacturers. You'll love working on a fun, collaborative, and talented team for one of the world's coolest robots.

Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiring viral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. Now we are quickly becoming a recognized leader in automation solutions for industrial applications and warehouse logistics.

How you will make an impact:

• Develop (document, design, test, support) short- and long-term solutions to product design defects

• Collaborate across the engineering, manufacturing, production, and test teams to triage, troubleshoot, and diagnose robot failures to root cause down to the circuit/chip level

• Lead cross-functional debug "tiger teams" and present findings to leadership

• Qualify production supplier changes by developing and executing production validation test (PVT) plans

• Author technical documentation such as test plans, test reports, debug reports, rework instructions, schematics, layout, and BOMs

• Collaborate with supply chain to resolve component obsolescence issues

• Develop test and debugging infrastructure (test boards, cables, software, tools, etc.)

• May contribute to new product development (design and DVT)

• Create Engineering Change Orders (ECOs)

• Participate in design reviews

• Contribute to continuous improvement activities such as authoring process documentation

We are looking for:

• BS or greater in electrical engineering, computer engineering, robotics, or closely related field

• 0-5+ years of experience (new college graduates welcome to apply!)

• Demonstrated ability to debug to root cause complex electrical issues

• Embedded computing and robotics systems knowledge

• Electrical engineering fundamentals

• Some experience with schematic capture and PCB layout software (e.g. Altium)

• Detail oriented, methodical, and creative problem solver

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with common PLM software (e.g. Arena)

• Linux operating system skills

• Software development in C/C++, Python, Verilog/VHDL, and/or LabView

• Familiarity with the Atlassian family of products such as Jira and Confluence

• Familiarity with formal problem solving techniques such as 5 Whys, 8D, etc.