Senior Manager - Verification, Validation, & Testing

The Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Department of Boston Dynamics (BD) seeks a technical leader and manager who will advance state-of-the-art Verification, Validation, and Test (VV&T) systems for the most capable humanoid robot system in the world. The ideal candidate has significant experience (in priority order) with:

1. Intuitive sense of how to create test systems highly representative of product usage

2. Setting risk-based verification priorities to mitigate program technical risks ASAP

3. Ensuring comprehensive product verification planning & execution

a. Analysis, simulation, subjective, empirical, statistical

b. Benchtop, open-lab full-robot, in-factory/field

4. Method development

5. Requirements quality assurance

This role is responsible for hiring and providing hands-on technical leadership of a rapidly-growing highly-technical team that the candidate will build. The team will include mechanical, electrical and software expertise.

How you will make an impact:

Recruit, technically mentor, & develop a high-performing team with a healthy culture

Develop verification engineering capabilities for BD, prioritizing capability growth where most critical for program success

Action-oriented approach with exceptional execution

Hands-on test method development, fixture design, execution, and analysis, along with their team

Lead overall program Design Verification Planning and Reporting (DVP&R)

Ensure exceptional product system requirement quality to enable exceptional VV&T

Drive right-weight SEIT for optimal program performance, managing organizational changes of creating an innovative new department within BD

Support system characterization and benchmarking activities

Interface with other VV&T org units around BD to build corporate performance

Required Skills & Experience:

Familiarity 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

Expert in translating tough-to-specify performance requirements into practical tests

Resource planning, credibly advocating needs to leadership, and execute according to plan

Exceptional communication, conflict management, and interpersonal skills

10+ years of test engineering experience

5+ years leading cross-disciplinary teams in the development and verification of robotic or similarly complex embedded systems

5+ years directly managing engineers and technicians

Desirable Skills & Experience:

Growing new teams

Data analysis & visualization

Failure Analysis

Test fixture design, build, programming, bring-up, and prove-out

Life testing

Fault insertion testing

Reliability & robustness, including DFMEA, DVP&R, DOE, root cause analysis, data analytics

Internal lab management & outsourcing to external test labs

Safety-critical system development

Regulatory compliance

Development of repeatable test performance correlating with subjective customer preference

Highly relevant design domains, including DC motors, controllers, gear trains, bearings, encoders, force transducers, cameras, user interfaces, 2-way audio, PCBAs, wire harnesses, radios, compute, batteries & BMS, end effectors, structural housings & linkages, manufacturing IT & other infrastructure

Software tools including Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Python, C, Matlab, Labview, Arena, Altium, Solidworks, Catia, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Mujoco

Behavior & controls software: AI/ML, perception, planning, controls, fault management

SQA

Simulation

Rapid-prototyping

We 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.

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