# Senior Staff Audio Machine Learning Engineer

Role OverviewBoston Dynamics is looking for a Senior Staff Audio Machine Learning Engineer to join the Spot Sensing team. In this role, your core mission will be driving the evolution of our Acoustic Change Detection (ACD) capability-taking beamformed and raw audio and turning it into actionable machinery prognostics. While acoustic intelligence is your primary domain, mechanical inspection on Spot is multimodal. Beyond mastering the audio pipeline, you will contribute to the integration of acoustic features with complementary modalities, such as image, video, and thermal, fusing multimodal representations with LLMs/VLMs to empower our end users with prescriptive maintenance actions, not indecipherable data. You will leverage the world’s largest fleet-gathered industrial sensor dataset, utilizing Spot equipped with the Sorama L642 acoustic camera and SpotCAM2. Key Responsibilities Acoustic ML & DSP Ownership (Core Focus): Design, refine, and scale digital signal processing and machine learning pipelines for our Acoustic Change Detection (ACD) system. Anomaly Detection & Failure Classification: Lead the improvement and modernization of our acoustic detection stack-transitioning fr

- **Id**: 3829464
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/boston-dynamics-senior-staff-audio-machine-learning-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Waltham, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T19:08:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T18:32:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4009
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Logistics & Warehouse Robotics, Industrial Robotics, Humanoid Robots

## Company

- **Id**: 47994
- **Name**: Boston Dynamics
- **Domain**: bostondynamics.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/boston-dynamics>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.8
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 220000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 220000

## Technologies

- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **SciPy** — Optional: no
- **VLM** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T19:08:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 14; Filings 12m: 14

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:6, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 220000
- **Is top pay**: no

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