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We are looking for a technical leader and manager who will advance state-of-the-art verification, validation, and test (VV&T) systems for the Atlas humanoid robot product ecosystem. The ideal candidate has significant experience (in priority order) with:\nIntuitive sense of how to create test systems highly representative of product usage\nSetting risk-based verification priorities to mitigate program technical risks ASAP\nEnsuring comprehensive product verification planning & executionAnalysis, simulation, subjective, empirical, statistical\nBenchtop, open-lab full-robot, in-factory/field \n\nMethod development\nRequirements quality assurance\nThis role is responsible for hiring and providing hands-on technical leadership of a highly-technical growing team that includes mechanical, electrical and software expertise. The Associate Director of Systems Test reports to the SEIT Director and helps BD rapidly develop, and qualify for launch into mass production, the most capable full-body-manipulating humanoid robotic product in the world.\nBoston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiringviral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. Now we are quickly becoming a recognized leader in automation solutions for industrial applications and warehouse logistics.\nHow you will make an impact:\nRecruit, technically mentor, & develop a high-performing team with a healthy culture.\nDevelop verification engineering capabilities for BD, prioritizing capability growth where most critical for program success.\nAction-oriented approach with exceptional execution.\nHands-on test method development, fixture design, execution, and analysis, along with their team.\nLead overall program Design Verification Planning and Reporting (DVP&R) across a complex product ecosystem, involving rapidly evolving state-of-the-art designs, with cross-functionally distributed responsibilities.\nEnsure exceptional product system requirement quality to enable exceptional VV&T. Ensure clear bidirectional traceability between engineering requirements, verification plans, and results.\nDrive right-weight SEIT for optimal program performance, managing organizational evolution of an innovative, and relatively new, department within BD.\nSupport system characterization and benchmarking activities.\nInterface with other VV&T org units around BD to leverage shared approaches and build \nRequired Skills & Experience:\nFamiliarity doing V&V in a formal context. Desire to teach and instill best practices that will scale to the complexity of the product we’re building.\nExpert in translating tough-to-specify performance requirements into practical tests. \nTrack record of specifying unprecedented test methods and appropriately robust test systems that yield repeatable and reproducible test results, finding failures at subsystem levels prior to system integration.\nResource planning, credibly advocating needs to leadership, and executing according to plan.\nExceptional communication, conflict management, and interpersonal skills. \n10+ years of test engineering experience.\n5+ years leading cross-disciplinary teams in the development and verification of robotic or similarly complex embedded systems.\n5+ years directly managing managers, engineers, and technicians. \nExperience across at least one mass-produced product lifecycle. Knowledge of what it takes to deliver innovative, robust, and reliable products into high-volume production.\nDesired Skills & Experience:\nReliability & robustness, including DFMEA, DVP&R, DOE, trouble-shooting, failure analysis, root cause assessment, and 8D problem solving.\nStatistical data analysis & visualization.\nTest fixture design, build, programming, bring-up, and prove-out. Build vs buy evaluation. Contractor and supplier management.\nTest method development including accelerated life, fault insertion, kinematic verification, dynamometers, environmental extremes, shock & vibe, EMC, ESD, HALT, HASS.\nInternal lab management, facility space planning, & outsourcing to external test labs.\nSafety-critical system development and related documentation rigor.\nRegulatory compliance\nDevelopment of repeatable test performance correlating with subjective customer preference\nHighly relevant design domains, including BLDC motors, controllers, gear trains, bearings, encoders, force transducers, inertial sensors, cameras, user interfaces, 2-way audio, PCBAs, wire harnesses, radios, compute, batteries & BMS, end effectors, IP67 structural housings, mechanisms, manufacturing IT & other infrastructure.\nExperience in automotive product development is highly desirable.\nSoftware tools including Jama, Jira, Testrails, Google Suite, Python, C, ClaudeCode, Matlab, Arena, Altium, Catia, Mujoco, Raspberry Pi, Arduino.\nBehavior & controls software: AI / ML / VLAs, perception, planning, controls, diagnostics, fault management.\nSQA / CI / CD.\nSimulation, including HIL.\nMachine shop fabrication technologies and rapid-prototyping methods.\nWe are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.\nThe salary range for this position will be clearly stated in the job posting as required by Massachusetts law. The base pay range for this position is between $178,,000 - $221,000. 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.\nBoston Dynamics will never ask you to divulge your personal financial or account information as part of its recruiting process.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5916,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Logistics & Warehouse Robotics","Industrial Robotics","Humanoid Robots"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-12T19:46:42Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 14","filings_12m":14,"filings_prev_12m":12,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":222500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:08:04+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":45,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/boston-dynamics-associate-director-systems-test-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/boston-dynamics-associate-director-systems-test-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T15:32:49Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"assistant_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3276,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":47994},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=47994"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fboston-dynamics-associate-director-systems-test-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fboston-dynamics-associate-director-systems-test-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fboston-dynamics-associate-director-systems-test-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/boston-dynamics-associate-director-systems-test-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fboston-dynamics-associate-director-systems-test-engineering"}]}