Staff ML Ops Engineer
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As an MLOps Engineer on the Central Software (CSW) ML Platform team, you will play an active role in implementing the tools, infrastructure, and pipelines that unify how our product and research teams get stuff done. This is your chance to work closely with ML/RL engineers and researchers from across Boston Dynamics (BD), supporting advanced AI product and research activities at the forefront of robotics innovation.
How you will make an impact
- Transform proofs of concept into scalable solutions, helping product teams deliver new robot capabilities to customers
- Evolve and scale fielded solutions, enabling continuous model improvement and redeployment
- Work with stakeholders across BD to understand requirements, ensuring deployed solutions meet end-user needs
- Own end-to-end delivery of new capabilities, spanning implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
- Maintain our GPU clusters and develop automation to monitor and improve cluster health
- Use observability tools to monitor system health and root-cause problems across the platform
- Drive accuracy and efficiency by profiling and optimizing ML data, training, and evaluation pipelines.
- Work closely with other members of the ML Platform team to implement, deploy, and maintain ML infrastructure
- Be an active participant in our agile development process, coordinating work with others, calling out challenges, and regularly communicating progress
- Use your experience to mentor and upskill peers and other contributors across the organization
You bring
- 5+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer or ML Engineer
- Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Pandas, NumPy)
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS) and scalable ML deployment methods (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform)
- Experience with GPU cluster management and scheduling (e.g., Slurm, Kueue, or similar)
- Experience with CI/CD practices applied to ML pipelines
- Experience with experiment tracking and model/data versioning tools (e.g., MLflow, Weights & Biases, DVC)
- Experience building scalable data and ETL pipelines (e.g., Spark, Airflow) alongside data processing, augmentation, and cleaning techniques.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, or other lean methodologies; ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to have
- Experience with networking fundamentals such as IAP, Tailscale, Shared VPC, NAT
- Familiarity with database optimization concepts such as indexing and connection pooling.
- Experience with TypeScript, Node, and related full-stack web technologies to build internal tooling, visualization dashboards, and web-based interfaces for MLOps platforms
- Experience with on-robot/edge deployment constraints (latency, compute limits, OTA model updates
- Experience with annotation tools such as SAM or Co-Tracker
We are interested in all qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.
The base pay range for this position is between $150,000 to $180,000 annually. 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. Boston Dynamics offers a generous Benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401(k), paid time off and an annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.
About Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
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