13 days ago
Wilmington, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$149k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, optimize, and maintain real-time 3D LiDAR and point-cloud perception, filtering, calibration, and sensor-noise handling algorithms.
- Own perception functionality from sensor characterization and technical design through testing, validation, and fleet deployment.
- Develop intelligent agents and automated pipelines for data labeling, dataset curation, edge-case triage, and large-scale offline regression validation.
- Research and build autonomous recovery, robot learning, adaptive decision-making, and behavior-generation approaches.
- Integrate perception and autonomy decisions with core vehicle software in partnership with Controls, System Software, and System Test teams.
- Lead architecture, testing, code reviews, technical documentation, and mentoring while expanding capabilities across robot platforms and operating conditions.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of related experience or equivalent work experience.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Strong Modern C++ and Python proficiency, including Linux, real-time or low-latency systems, and multithreaded programming.
- Hands-on experience developing perception or autonomy software for physical robotic systems or autonomous vehicles, including 3D point clouds, filtering, clustering, spatial calibration, and coordinate geometry.
- Experience integrating, debugging, validating, and deploying production perception systems using ROS/ROS2 or comparable robotics middleware.
- Familiarity with PCL, OpenCV, Docker, and edge-compute environments.
- Experience building automated data or machine-learning pipelines, intelligent agents, robot-learning systems, automated labeling workflows, or related autonomy capabilities.
- Strong technical communication, architectural leadership, design-review, documentation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and mentoring skills.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to travel to client locations and company headquarters.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement is indicated.
- Up to 5%-10% travel may be required.
- Business travel expenses are reimbursed according to program guidelines; a personal credit card may be required during onboarding before a corporate card is issued.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, and PTO and/or other benefits.
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.