Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics

Staff Fleet Operations Robot Captain, Atlas

Waltham Office (POST), USA · Staff+

Work authorization required$116k-$160kDetected 34 days ago
LinuxJiraRobotics

About the role

  • Core Competencies - Technical Troubleshooting: Rapidly localizes faults across complex electromechanical and software boundaries. - Operational Ownership: Strong sense of accountability for fleet uptime, readiness, and reliability.
  • The base pay range for this position is between $116,000.00 to $160,000.00 annually.
  • Base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors, including, but not limited to, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Responsibilities

  • Create high-quality issue reports and tickets that enable subject-matter experts to root cause problems efficiently.
  • Own and prioritize the daily experiment and test queue to maximize robot utilization during core operating hours.
  • Track repair progress and validate robot readiness before returning systems to active use.
  • Coordinate software updates and system configuration changes to ensure robots are operating on approved, stable builds.
  • Execution Discipline: Maintains operational rigor in a fast-moving, high-stakes R&D environment.

Requirements

  • Serve as the primary interface to repair and maintenance teams when hardware intervention is required.
  • Strong understanding of robotics systems, including software stacks, controls, networking, and hardware interfaces.
  • Proficiency in reading and interpreting Real-Time (RT) code, Linux system logs, and networking telemetry to troubleshoot controls.
  • Experience with issue tracking, work management systems, such as JIRA, and data-driven monitoring tools/dashboards such as Tableau.
  • Strong understanding of safety best practices in high-energy or mobile robotics environments.

Compensation

  • The base pay range for this position is between $116,000.00 to $160,000.00 annually.

Benefits

  • Maintain the real-time health, configuration, and connectivity of all robots in the fleet.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position

This listing is sourced directly from Boston Dynamics's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.