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This role pairs deep technical expertise with business and Go-To-Market strategy: you are the link between program-level governance and on-the-ground execution, making sure every deployment delivers measurable operational value and opens the door to account growth. Working closely with Sales, Customer Success, Support, and Product R&D, you will turn what you learn in the field into the products and repeatable playbooks that let us scale.\nHow You Will Make an Impact:\nProgram Architecture & Global Strategy: Own the delivery strategy for scalable, multi-site robotics programs, from solution design, infrastructure, and network integration through global expansion planning.\nCross-Functional Orchestration: Serve as the primary technical contact for strategic accounts, building consultative partnerships across customer business units and aligning Sales, Customer Success, Support, and R&D around the customer’s long-term business strategy.\nGovernance & Standards: Own program-level Statements of Work (SOWs) that define scope, deliverables, and ownership, along with repeatable integration strategy playbooks that meet industry and regulatory requirements.\nEnterprise Integration & Escalation: Connect robot data and workflows to customer systems such as CMMS, asset management, and analytics pipelines, and lead diagnosis, resolution, and performance optimization across hardware, software, and networking during deployment.\nCustomer Adoption & Value: Define adoption strategies that build customer ownership of their robot programs, and implement frameworks to measure operational value and fleet utilization.\nProduct Influence: Lead early product testing with strategic customers, and turn field data and feedback into clear requirements that shape the Boston Dynamics product roadmap.\nInternal Leadership & Mentorship: Guide other FAEs and integration teams, using patterns in field data to drive continuous improvement of the global integration roadmap.\nYou bring:\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.\nExperience: 5+ years of professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years with a Master’s degree, in fast-paced technology integration, robotics, or complex systems engineering environment.\nStrategic Integration Expertise: Proven track record of overseeing high-complexity technical deployments and managing the intersection of hardware, software, and operational workflows.\nCommunication & Influence: Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to engineering teams, operators, and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment on project goals and impact.\nWe Value\nOperational Adaptability: Proven comfort in refining and optimizing processes to ensure global scalability and consistent performance across diverse sites.\nTechnical Versatility: Ability to leverage CAD for site planning, navigate enterprise networking (VLANs/VPNs) during setup, and utilize Python or C++ APIs to customize robotic solutions and collaborate with technical stakeholders.\nResilience & Autonomy: Comfort navigating the ambiguity of early-stage product deployments and the ability to build structure where none exists.\nGo-To-Market Instinct: The ability to recognize how a successful technical integration can unlock broader strategic impact and account expansion.\nIndustrial Domain Expertise: Familiarity with specialized workflows in sectors like large-scale manufacturing and logistics.\nLocation & Workplace\nCorporate Headquarters: This is an in-person role based out of our headquarters in Waltham, MA, offering direct access to our engineering labs and cross-functional teams.\nTravel: Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 50% of the time.\nWe are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. 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