Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
$135k/y-$175k/y
Boston Dynamics3 days ago
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Summary
Boston Dynamics is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack to join their team in Waltham, MA. The role involves building and integrating systems for the Atlas robot to perform complex tasks in dynamic environments.
About the Role
As a Staff Full Stack Engineer, you will work across every layer of the stack, from third-party integrations and context engineering to observability frameworks and user interfaces. You will collaborate with ML experts and product teams to develop Atlas' planning and reasoning system, ensuring it is reliable and valuable for customers. Responsibilities include developing operator dashboards, designing observability frameworks, and engaging with customers to understand real-world use cases.
About You
Required:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong full stack background spanning frontend, backend, and LLM integrations.
- Demonstrated ability to design and integrate APIs and third-party services in complex, multi-system environments.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture.
- Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React), backend technologies (e.g., Python, TypeScript) and databases (e.g. Postgres, Redis, Pinecone).
- Demonstrated ability to ship reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software.
- Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where you're expected to own problems end to end.
Preferred:
- Experience with LLM products and/or agentic systems, including prompt engineering, context window management, or tool-use orchestration.
- Experience working with robotics systems, vision models, or real-time data pipelines.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and/or C++, with comfort operating across large codebases.
- Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g. OpenTelemetry) and evaluation frameworks for AI systems.
Benefits
- Generous benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) plan.
- Paid time off.
- Annual bonus structure.
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics builds advanced mobile manipulation robots with remarkable mobility, dexterity perception and agility. We use sensor-based controls and computation to unlock the potential of complex mechanisms. Our world-class development teams develop prototypes for wild new concepts, do build-test-build engineering and field testing and transform successful designs into robot products. Our goal is to change your idea of what robots can do.
Waltham, MA