23 hours ago
Wilmington, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$116k - $171k/yr
Responsibilities
- Author Concepts of Operations describing users, environments, inputs, outputs, system states, and system boundaries.
- Translate customer and business needs into complete, verifiable Functional Requirements and decompose them into software component and application requirements.
- Maintain traceability from system-level requirements to software component requirements.
- Own the software risk register and identify and mitigate performance, latency, memory, and failure-state risks.
- Conduct impact assessments and technical trade-off analyses involving cross-team dependencies, interfaces, scalability, performance, and time to market.
- Guide core software delivery through phased prioritization and establish Systems Engineering practices across teams and product families.
- Set verification and validation strategies and support functional integration test plans.
- Act as the connective layer between leadership and development teams by preparing system-level updates and recommendations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
- At least 5 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Software Architecture, or senior- or lead-level Software Engineering.
- Experience authoring system requirements, Concepts of Operations, and technical trade-off analyses.
- Deep familiarity with risk identification, mitigation, and maintaining technical risk registers for complex systems.
- Ability to translate abstract ideas and business goals into structured, verifiable engineering requirements.
- Familiarity with Systems Engineering processes, product lifecycle management, stage-gate development, and verification and validation frameworks.
- Strong background in systems-level programming languages and understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and hardware-software integration.
- Experience with DFMEA, Pugh matrices, and 8D.
- Robotics, automation, or medical-device industry experience and experience scaling engineering intake, stage-gate, or requirements processes are preferred.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through influence without direct authority, strong communication, resilience, organization, and ability to work independently.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), PTO, and/or other benefits are included in the compensation package.
- The role is associated with a hybrid work arrangement and may require up to 10% travel.
- Employees must have a valid driver’s license and be able to drive or fly to client and customer locations.
- Employees manage expenses personally using a credit card and are reimbursed bi-weekly.
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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.