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Senior Full Stack Software Engineer-Atlas

Boston Dynamics

Company websitebostondynamics.com (Boston Dynamics, opens in new tab)

Base salary $120K  to $145K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Waltham, MA

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  • LocationWaltham, MA
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (54 min ago) · observed since

About this job

About the Role

As seen at CES 2026, Atlas is the robot transforming the role of humanoid robots in our world. This is your chance to come and work on the cutting edge of robotics, and make a direct impact on how people will interact with humanoids now and in the future.


The Atlas Applications team is seeking a versatile full stack engineer to build and integrate the systems that make Atlas capable of complex tasks in dynamic environments.


In this role, you will work across every layer of our agentic autonomy stack – from third-party integrations and context engineering to observability frameworks and user interfaces. 


You will partner closely with ML experts, behavior engineers, and product teams to develop Atlas' planning and reasoning system, and to integrate this system with the right tools, data, and prompts.


Candidates who thrive working across system boundaries and who are excited to advance the state of the art in robotics are encouraged to apply.


Responsibilities

  • Work directly on Atlas' agentic capabilities, utilizing VLMs, tool calls, context engineering, and memory to build a flexible and performant task execution system.
  • Develop, design, and establish conventions for the operator dashboards, task configuration UIs, and diagnostic interfaces to help users build and deploy Atlas applications.
  • Leverage observability frameworks, structured logging, and tracing infrastructure to provide visibility into system behavior and performance.
  • Develop and utilize evaluation and benchmarks to measure reasoning quality, safety, reliability, and generalization across tasks and environments.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with agentic systems, behavior, controls, perception, and product experts to ship end-to-end capabilities.
  • Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to understand real-world use cases and ensure solutions are practical, reliable, and impactful.
  • Contribute to a strong engineering culture through code reviews, testing, documentation, and thoughtful system design.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience or masters degree in related field.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and integrate APIs and third-party services in complex, multi-system environments.
  • Knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React), backend technologies (e.g., Python, TypeScript) and databases (e.g. Postgres, Redis).
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture.
  • Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where you're expected to own problems end to end.

Preferred

  • Experience building LLM products and/or agentic systems, including chat UIs, prompt engineering, context window management, or tool-use orchestration (e.g. coding agents, assistants).
  • Experience working with robotics systems, vision models, or real-time data pipelines.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python with comfort operating across large codebases.
  • Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g. OpenTelemetry) and evaluation frameworks for AI systems.

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.


The base pay range for this position is between $120,000 to $145,000 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.


Source: Boston Dynamics on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($120,000) is above 12% of the 392 Software Engineering roles in Massachusetts listed on this site; 6 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $150,000; the middle half runs from $133,938 to $172,125.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Boston Dynamics roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Boston Dynamics roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer-Atlas (this listing)$120K - $145K
Staff Mechanical Engineer$120K - $145K
Staff Customer Success Manager$120K - $135K
Senior Staff Social Media Manager$120K - $145K
Staff Hardware Test Engineer$117K - $145K
Senior Global Supply Chain Manager (Strategic Sourcing)From $116,479
Supply Chain Program Manager (New Products)$116,479 - $146,000

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Boston Dynamics roles · How to read the bar

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2026-10-23
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