Systems Electrical Engineer in Test
| Company | Boston Dynamics |
|---|---|
| Location | Waltham, MA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Solid EE fundamentals with 5+ years’ of hands-on experience designing, building, and testing PCBAs and subsystem test stands used for hardware and software validation.
- Demonstrated experience using Altium (or similar EDA tools) in both schematic capture and layout.
- Demonstrated experience in the test and debugging of power electronics (motor drivers, switch-mode power supplies), digital electronics (MCUs, FPGAs, Ethernet, USB, SPI, I2C), and analog electronics (filters, ADCs/DACs).
- General experience in firmware, automation, and controls.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and technician teams to validate and integrate robot systems into test stands for reliability, verification, and software testing.
- Oversee and execute the integration of testing fixtures, including instrumentation, wiring, and configurations.
- Test and validate PCBAs and firmware for critical components of our robot, such as power distribution boards, battery management systems, sensing boards, motor controllers, or compute boards.
- Contribute to the definition of our PCBA design and test process.
- Support the review of design artifacts (schematics, layouts, bills of materials) from your peers or external suppliers.
- Support system integration and test activities by contributing to test execution and debugging.
- Work alongside reliability engineers to develop and execute accelerated life reliability test specifications for actuators, batteries, structures, bushings, wirings, sensors, and the full system.
- Support failure analysis efforts for failures resulting from reliability testing.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing and system design.
- Data analysis and visualization.
- Reliability and robustness, including DFMEA, DVP&R, DOE, root cause analysis, and data analytics.
- Experience with dyno-based testing systems and motor characterization.
- Development of repeatable test performance correlating with subjective customer preference.
- Software tools including: Python, C++, Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Matlab, Arena, Altium, Solidworks, Catia v6, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Mujoco.
- Working with product diagnostic software and fault management.
- SQA.
- Simulation.