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The Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Department of Boston Dynamics (BD) seeks a safety and reliability (S&R) technical leader and people manager for its Atlas humanoid product program. The Associate Director of Systems Safety & Reliability will grow and manage a team of safety systems engineers, reliability engineers, failure analysis engineers, and data analysts in the planning, execution, and verification of S&R. This is a strategically critical position which will provide leadership to the two most important performance attributes of what will be the world’s most capable, safe, and reliable humanoid.
Job Responsibility:
Work with employees and peers to develop effective safety and reliability strategies, efficient processes, and needed infrastructure
Oversee safety and reliability engineering requirement development, lifecycle management, compliance forecasting, and verification
Support system risk assessment and management
Lead or support safety case development
Provide training and coaching across the team
Oversee failure analysis, root cause identification, corrective action planning, and execution
Technical project management skills, including resource planning, work planning, risk management, prioritization, conflict management, change management, issue resolution, and progress reporting
Requirements:
Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills
10+ years of relevant product development experience
Deep technical expertise in the engineering of safety-critical autonomous systems
5+ years embedded electromechanical product system design and development experience
7+ years of experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts in applications of robotics, autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems, industrial automation, or related industries
Experience releasing a complex electromechanical system into mass production
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with engineering teams and executives
Experience developing safety goals, safety concepts, and safety cases
Experience leading engineering teams through structured safety, reliability, & robustness methods
Deep knowledge of one or more relevant safety standards
Diagnostics and fault management
Structured problem solving methods
Analysis of software log data to identify failure causes
Experience with corrective action reporting processes and systems
Authoring, reviewing, and approving a wide variety of requirements
Highly relevant design domains include DC motors, controllers, gear trains, bearings, encoders, transducers, cameras, user interfaces, 2-way audio, PCBAs, flex circuits, wire harnesses, slip rings, radios, microcontrollers, protective padding & shells, batteries & BMS, end effectors, structural housings & linkages
Software tools including Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Testrails, Python, Matlab, Reliasoft or other statistical analysis tools
Data analysis using tools such as Looker or Tableau