3 months ago
Wilmington, MA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+
Base Salary
$120k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test real-time, high-performance planning software for large-scale robotic systems.
- Build algorithms and services for multi-robot motion planning, task allocation, inventory-aware decision-making, routing, and traffic management.
- Coordinate robot-level execution, fleet-level orchestration, and higher-level system objectives across software layers.
- Create simulation and modeling tools to validate planning strategies, stress-test edge cases, and evaluate system performance and robustness.
- Integrate planning solutions into production systems and analyze telemetry and performance data.
- Support production deployments by triaging issues, improving diagnostics, documenting technical designs, and driving continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with robotics, perception, controls, cloud, operations, and systems engineering teams.
Requirements
- Experience in robotics, algorithm development, or related software engineering roles.
- Strong experience in one or more of multi-agent pathfinding, heuristic search, robotics motion planning, task allocation, inventory management, operations research, machine learning for robotics planning, real-time decision-making systems, or microservice cluster architecture.
- Strong programming skills in object-oriented languages such as C# or C++.
- Background in data structures, algorithms, optimization, distributed or multi-agent systems, and software coordination across components and layers.
- Ability to use simulation, experimentation, and data analysis to evaluate performance, robustness, scalability, and system behavior.
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. degree in robotics, computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related discipline.
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills across algorithm and system domains.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to travel to client and customer locations.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), PTO, and other benefits are offered.
- Hybrid work arrangement is indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
- Up to 10% travel may be required.
- Employees must own a credit card and manage expenses personally for bi-weekly reimbursement.
Tech Stack
C#C++
Categories
Robotics
About Symbotic
Symbotic builds AI-enabled warehouse automation systems that combine high-density storage, autonomous robots, and warehouse execution software for large retailers, wholesalers, and consumer-goods distributors. The company sells and operates end-to-end material-handling platforms, including automated case picking and AS/RS, delivered through system deployments and long-term service agreements. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, Symbotic is a public company on Nasdaq (SYM) and counts Walmart among its customers.