Robotics Planning Engineer
Symbotic Inc.Visit Symbotic Inc. website
Symbotic develops AI-enabled robotic systems and software for end-to-end warehouse and supply-chain automation.
Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States
About Symbotic Inc.
Symbotic provides turnkey warehouse automation systems that use autonomous robots and AI-enhanced software to store, move, sort, and fulfill goods, including distribution and micro-fulfillment operations.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, develop, and test real-time planning software for large-scale robotics. You will build algorithms for routing, task allocation, inventory flow, traffic management, and fleet orchestration. You will create simulations, analyze performance data, integrate production solutions, and support deployments and issue resolution.
Requirements
- Experience in robotics, algorithm development, or related software engineering
- Experience with multi-agent pathfinding, motion planning, task allocation, inventory management, operations research, machine learning for robotics, real-time decision-making, or microservice architecture
- Programming skills in C# or C++
- Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, optimization, and distributed or multi-agent systems
- Experience using simulation, experimentation, and data analysis
- Bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related discipline
- Valid driver's license
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test real-time planning software
- Build and optimize multi-robot planning and task-allocation algorithms
- Develop planning logic across robot, fleet, and system layers
- Create simulation and modeling tools
- Integrate planning solutions into production systems
- Analyze telemetry and performance data
- Triage production issues and improve diagnostics
- Document technical designs
- Travel up to 10% as required
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability coverage
- 401K
- PTO
