Atlas Electrical Engineering Manager

Job Summary

We’re looking for an Electrical Engineering Manager to lead a team to design, develop and support high-performance Actuator Products for next-generation humanoid robotic platforms. This role sits at the intersection of product design, cutting edge motor drive and sensing technology, and manufacturing, shaping how complex electromechanical systems are conceived, integrated, brought to life at scale, and maintained in the field.

About the Role

This role requires managing a team of 5-10 electrical engineers to design, develop, and continuously improve high-performance robotic actuator products. You will provide technical leadership in planning, architecting, and executing electrical system designs, collaborate with other managers and engineers on hard design problems, and work across disciplines to understand failure modes and design tests to validate design performance.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5-10 electrical engineers to design, develop and continuously improve high-performance robotic actuator products.
• Provide technical leadership in planning, architecting, and executing electrical system designs.
• Collaborate with other managers and engineers on hard design problems, work across disciplines to understand failure modes and design tests to validate design performance.
• Evaluate, derisk and introduce new technologies to improve performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Work with manufacturing, suppliers, technicians, contract manufacturers, and logistics to guarantee that the right electrical systems are assembled and functional in the right place at the right time.
• Troubleshoot issues, root cause failure analysis, design and implement corrective and preventative solutions.
• Mentor and influence engineers through design reviews, analysis & simulation, standards development, documentation, and architectural best practices.

Requirements

• Proven experience leveraging a team to deliver impact.
• Confident and dynamic communicator, able to build consensus and influence decision making at various levels.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead architectural trade studies and balance innovation, cost, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Experience working across disciplines and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and setting technical direction for others.
• Deep experience architecting complex electromechanical products, with a strong emphasis on tight packaging, reliability, and thermal management.
• Extensive experience with power electronics and/or motor drives.
• Experience with design and validation of high speed communication interfaces.
• Experience with High-Density Interconnect (HDI) PCB routing and deep knowledge of PCB fabrication and assembly processes.
• Working understanding of EMC/EMI testing and troubleshooting.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals.
• Expert-level proficiency using schematic capture and PCB layout software.
• Nice to have: Firmware development in C, Experience with volume manufacturing, Experience with Python, LabView, or MATLAB, A working knowledge of failure avoidance methods like DFMEA/PFMEA and structured problem solving methods like 8D.

Qualifications

• Eligible to work in the United States.
• The base pay range for this position is between $150,000 to $200,000 annually.
• Boston Dynamics offers a generous Benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401(k), paid time off and an annual bonus structure.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off
• An annual bonus structure