Head of Application Software- Atlas

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Boston Dynamics seeks an Engineering Leader to lead the Applications team for the Atlas Humanoid Robot program. In this role, you’ll be responsible for delivering the applications which bring Atlas out of the lab and into the real world. Applications may include : individual robot teleoperation; following verbal or text instructions for novel tasks; or full integration into a logistics warehouse or manufacturing facility.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver Results. Build high-quality applications quickly which customers, integrators, and deployment teams love. Strike the right balance of building rapid prototypes for proof-of-concepts and hardened systems for mission-critical applications.
• Stay on top of — and advance — Physical AI technology trends. At present this includes Spatial AR interfaces, Context Prompting for VLMs, voice interaction, and MCP / agent integrations. Stay ahead of the curve and determine which technology trends will satisfy customer needs.
• Set the bar for Engineering Excellence. Establish strong standards for design, test, and execution across the team. Understand the details of the team’s work, and ensure that the team is consistently making good tradeoff decisions.
• Build and organize the team. Hire leads and ICs for the team. Decide on the right organizational structure to support multiple applications effectively. Refine team norms, processes, and communication channels as the team scales.
• Establish a customer-centric culture. Get the team directly involved with early customer deployments. Handle issues in the field with appropriate urgency. Build quantitative and qualitative feedback systems in partnership with the product team to understand how Atlas is being used in the real world.
• Collaborate with peers. Product Management, UX, Researchers, FAE, Support, and Customer Learning all need to work together to build the right state-of-the-art applications and to get them deployed successfully in the real world.

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