- Robot type
- Humanoid · Warehouse and Logistics
- Location
- WalthamMassachusettsUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Sep 7, 2026
- Salary
- $150,000–$200,000 a year
Atlas Electrical Engineering Manager
Job description
We’re looking for an Electrical Engineering Manager to lead a team to design, development, 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. The actuators enable our robots to move and accomplish their complex work - this is a critical role on the Atlas team. As an Engineering Manager at Boston Dynamics, you are not just a people manager.
Job 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.
Job 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
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