Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Systems

ResponsibilitiesDesign and implement System 2 architectures for humanoid robot control, including planning, reasoning, memory, and tool-use frameworks.Develop logging, observability and evaluation methodologies to guide performance improvement and measure reasoning quality, safety, reliability, and generalization.Collaborate cross-functionally with behavior, controls, perception, and product teams to ship end-to-end capabilities.

Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to understand real-world use cases and ensure solutions are practical, reliable, and impactful.Stay at the forefront of agentic research and translate state-of-the-art techniques into production systems.Contribute to a strong engineering culture through code reviews, testing, documentation, and thoughtful system design.Requirements5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant work on LLM-driven or agentic systems.Hands-on experience building or deploying agentic architectures (e.g., coding agents, tool-using LLM systems, autonomous task agents).A track record of improving agentic system performance through evaluation and benchmarking.Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture.Demonstrated ability to ship reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software.Ability to reason about safety, failure modes, and robustness in autonomous systems.PreferredExperience

working with robotics systems, vision models, and VLAs.Strong proficiency in Typescript, Python and/or C++, with comfort operating across large codebases.Knowledge and application of coding agents.History of pushing the state of the art through research, open-source contributions, or novel production systems.The base pay range for this position is between $155,000 to $235,000 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. We are growing rapidly, building a commercial company that delivers cutting edge technology and solutions to our customers from industrial applications to logistics and warehouse solutions.SummaryLocation: Waltham Office (POST)Type: Full time