Senior Staff Reinforcement Learning Engineer Spot Behavior

Do you have a passion for applying machine learning to drive real-world robot behavior? As a Reinforcement Learning Engineer on the Spot Behavior team, you will develop and deploy cutting-edge reinforcement learning techniques to expand Spot’s capabilities in dynamic, real-world environments. You’ll work on a multidisciplinary team tackling high-impact mobility challenges—ranging from terrain traversal and balance to complex locomotion behaviors. This role offers the opportunity to work hands-on with Spot and push the boundaries of legged robot performance.

Day-to-Day Activities:

• Design and deploy reinforcement learning systems to improve Spot’s mobility and robustness.

• Integrate learning-based solutions into Spot’s existing planning and control systems in collaboration with experts across controls, perception, and planning.

• Build and maintain systems that support reliable, scalable, and reproducible RL training.

• Test and debug your work using our in-house fleet of Spot robots.

• Write high-quality, maintainable code in both Python and C++.

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance on ML best practices.

We are looking for:

• Master’s degree or higher in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 3+ years of experience with a proven track record of deploying models on hardware.

• Proficiency in both Python and C++ programming languages.

• Strong analytical and debugging skills.

• Familiarity with modern deep RL toolkits and architectures.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with legged robotics.

• PhD in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

The base pay range for this position is between $154,000 to $212,000 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 a annual bonus structure.  Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.