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Atlas ML Software Engineer - Large Scale Behavior Cloning
Waltham, MA
Live, first seen by us 85 days ago- Pay
$154,000–190,000/year · Base — pay source
Prior experience building or contributing to evaluation pipelines for ML or robotics systems. The base pay range for this position is between $154,000 to $190,000 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 an annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.
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What you’ll work on
Full postingBuild tools and infrastructure for data pipelines, training, and evaluation
Develop tools to query and gain insights into data, training, and testing metrics
Analyze and track failures in experimental robot runs
Work with robot simulation software to build scenarios, tests, and data collection tools
Maintain and improve the code repository, including CI/CD, testing, and deployment
From the employer’s posting
build the tools and infrastructure that power this cycle end to end
Develop tools to query and gain insights into data, training, and testing performance metrics.
Analyze and track failures in experimental robot runs.
Work with robot simulation software to develop scenarios, tests, and data collection tools.
Maintain and improve the code repository, ensuring its ongoing maintenance and improvement to meet evolving needs (CI/CD, testing, deployment).
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- 3+ years of experience developing software for robotics, ML infrastructure, or related fields.
- Familiarity with behavior cloning, diffusion policies, or VLA/VLM architectures.
- Strong proficiency in Python, familiarity with C++
- Prior experience building or contributing to evaluation pipelines for ML or robotics systems.
- Experience building internal tools, dashboards, or GUI applications.
- Familiarity with ML workflows including training pipelines, experiment tracking, and dataset management.
Qualification wording
3+ years of experience developing software for robotics, ML infrastructure, or related fields.
Familiarity with behavior cloning, diffusion policies, or VLA/VLM architectures.
Strong proficiency in Python, familiarity with C++
Prior experience building or contributing to evaluation pipelines for ML or robotics systems.
Experience building internal tools, dashboards, or GUI applications.
Familiarity with ML workflows including training pipelines, experiment tracking, and dataset management.
Posting record
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- Aug 20, 202685 days ago
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- Last seen by us
- Nov 13, 2026
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Day 85
Up longer than most. Similar jobs usually come down between day 8 and day 76.
At Bostondynamics, jobs usually come down by about day 54.
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Bostondynamics is hiring
10 open jobs
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- 3+ years of experience developing software for robotics, ML infrastructure, or related fields. - Strong proficiency in Python, familiarity with C++ - Experience building internal tools, dashboards, or GUI applications.
- Experience with data analysis and visualization. - Experience with cloud infrastructure, databases, Docker, and job orchestration. - Strong communication and collaboration skills.
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About the role
We file this job under ML Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
ML engineers put machine learning models into products. They write the code that trains, ships, serves and monitors models so a recommendation or prediction works for real users.
Postings ask for strong Python and software engineering, a framework such as PyTorch, cloud services, and more and more often experience with large language models.
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- Median yearly pay, May 2025
- $140,300
- Expected change, 2025 to 2035
- 21.8% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs
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Job description
As seen at CES 2026, Atlas is the humanoid robot transforming what's possible in real-world manipulation and mobility. Our behavior development process is built on repeated iteration between data collection, policy training, hardware evaluation, and targeted diagnostics.
We are seeking a software engineer to build the tools and infrastructure that power this cycle end to end. Your scope will span data pipelines, training infrastructure, evaluation systems, and the tooling that connects them, with the goal of reducing friction and increasing the throughput and quality of each iteration. You will work in close collaboration with research scientists, ML engineers, data operations teams, and robot demonstrators.
How you will make an impact:
Actively participate in ongoing R&D initiatives, collaborating closely with Research Scientists and Infrastructure Engineers.
Develop tools to query and gain insights into data, training, and testing performance metrics.
Analyze and track failures in experimental robot runs.
Work with robot simulation software to develop scenarios, tests, and data collection tools.
Build internal tools and platforms that accelerate the collect, train, and evaluate loop.
Develop software that gives researchers and engineers immediate visibility into policy performance, data quality, and collection gaps.
Work across hardware and simulation environments to support evaluation and rapid experimentation.
Maintain and improve the code repository, ensuring its ongoing maintenance and improvement to meet evolving needs (CI/CD, testing, deployment).
What we are looking for:
3+ years of experience developing software for robotics, ML infrastructure, or related fields.
Strong proficiency in Python, familiarity with C++
Experience building internal tools, dashboards, or GUI applications.
Familiarity with ML workflows including training pipelines, experiment tracking, and dataset management.
Experience working on real-world robotics systems, whether in industry, research, or academic settings.
Experience with data analysis and visualization.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, databases, Docker, and job orchestration.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to have:
MS in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
Familiarity with behavior cloning, diffusion policies, or VLA/VLM architectures.
Prior experience building or contributing to evaluation pipelines for ML or robotics systems.
The base pay range for this position is between $154,000 to $190,000 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 an annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.
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- Pay
Prior experience building or contributing to evaluation pipelines for ML or robotics systems. The base pay range for this position is between $154,000 to $190,000 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 an annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.
- Location & working pattern
Waltham, MA
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