Senior Staff Reinforcement Learning Engineer – Spot Behavior
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Job Location:
Waltham, MA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 154000 - 212000
Posted on:
7 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Do you have a passion for applying machine learning to drive real-world robot behavior As a Reinforcement Learning Engineer on the Spot Behavior team you will develop and deploy cutting-edge reinforcement learning techniques to expand Spots capabilities in dynamic real-world environments. Youll work on a multidisciplinary team tackling high-impact mobility challengesranging from terrain traversal and balance to complex locomotion behaviors. This role offers the opportunity to work hands-on with Spot and push the boundaries of legged robot performance.
Day-to-Day Activities:
Design and deploy reinforcement learning systems to improve Spots mobility and robustness.
Integrate learning-based solutions into Spots existing planning and control systems in collaboration with experts across controls perception and planning.
Build and maintain systems that support reliable scalable and reproducible RL training.
Test and debug your work using our in-house fleet of Spot robots.
Write high-quality maintainable code in both Python and C.
Provide mentorship and technical guidance on ML best practices.
We are looking for:
Masters degree or higher in Robotics Mechanical Engineering Computer Science or a related field.
3 years of experience with a proven track record of deploying models on hardware.
Proficiency in both Python and C programming languages.
Strong analytical and debugging skills.
Familiarity with modern deep RL toolkits and architectures.
Nice to Have:
Experience with legged robotics.
PhD in Robotics Mechanical Engineering Computer Science or a related field.
The base pay range for this position is between $154000 to $212000 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
A leading global robotics company, Boston Dynamics builds practical robotics to tackle your toughest automation challenges and change your idea of what robots can do.
