- Robot type
- Humanoid · Warehouse and Logistics
- Location
- USA
- Job type
- Manufacturing
- Posted
- Oct 25, 2026
Systems Test Engineer - Co-Op
Job description
The Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Department of Boston Dynamics (BD) seeks a Systems Test Engineer Co-op to help verify and validate the most capable humanoid robot system in the world.
This role provides hands-on technical support to a peer group of test engineers and technicians. The team will include mechanical, electrical, and software expertise. The Systems Test Engineer Co-op reports to the Verification, Validation, & Test Associate Director on the Atlas team and helps BD continue the development of the most capable full-body-manipulating mobile robots in the world.
Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics…
Job responsibilities
- Work across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and technician teams to validate and integrate robot systems into test stands for reliability, verification, and software testing.
- Oversee and execute the integration of testing fixtures, including instrumentation, wiring, and configurations.
- Test and validate assemblies and firmware for critical components of our robot, such as actuators, grippers, power distribution boards, battery management systems, sensing boards, motor controllers, or compute boards.
- Contribute to the definition of our test system design and test process.
- Support system integration and test activities by contributing to test execution and debugging.
- Work alongside test engineers to develop and execute accelerated life reliability test specifications for actuators, batteries, structures, bushings, wirings, sensors, and the full system.
- Support failure analysis efforts for failures resulting from reliability testing.
Job requirements
- In progress Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Solid mechatronics fundamentals with hands-on experience designing, building, and testing PCBAs or subsystem test stands used for hardware and software validation.
- Experience using 3D Modeling SW or Altium (or similar EDA tools).
- Experience in the test and debugging of complex electromechanical systems.
- General experience in firmware, automation, and controls.
- Data analysis and visualization.
- Software tools including: Python, C++, Jama, Jira, Google Suite, Matlab, Arena, Altium, Solidworks, Catia v6, Raspberry Pi, Arduino.
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