Staff Robotics Software Engineer Perception and AI
Symbotic develops AI-enabled robotic systems and software for end-to-end warehouse and supply-chain automation.
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.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will build and optimize real-time 3D perception software for mobile robots. You will own functionality from sensor characterization and design reviews through testing, validation, and fleet deployment. You will also develop automated data workflows, integrate autonomy decisions into vehicle software, and uphold engineering standards through testing, documentation, reviews, and mentoring.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of related or equivalent work experience
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field
- Proficiency in Modern C++ and Python
- Experience with Linux, real-time or low-latency systems, and multithreaded programming
- Experience developing perception or autonomy software for physical robots or autonomous vehicles
- Knowledge of 3D point clouds, filtering, clustering, spatial calibration, and coordinate geometry
- Experience integrating, debugging, validating, and deploying production perception systems using ROS or ROS2 or comparable middleware
- Familiarity with PCL, OpenCV, Docker, and edge-compute environments
- Experience with automated data or machine learning pipelines, intelligent agents, robot learning systems, or automated labeling workflows
- Technical communication, architectural leadership, design-review, documentation, collaboration, and mentoring skills
- Valid driver's license and ability to travel
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, optimize, and maintain real-time 3D LiDAR and point-cloud perception algorithms using Modern C++ and Python
- Own perception functionality from sensor characterization and design reviews through testing, validation, and fleet deployment
- Develop intelligent agents and automated pipelines for data labeling, dataset curation, edge-case triage, and offline regression validation
- Research and build autonomous recovery, robot learning, adaptive decision-making, and behavior-generation approaches
- Integrate perception and autonomy decisions into core vehicle software with partner teams
- Drive engineering standards through testing, code reviews, documentation, and mentoring
- Expand perception capabilities across robot platforms and operating conditions
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401K
- PTO
- Business travel expense reimbursement
- Potential corporate credit card eligibility