What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Robotics Applications Engineer position at Symbotic?
Job Description:
Symbotic is revolutionizing the consumer goods supply chain with powered robotic technology. Our intelligent software orchestrates advanced robots in a high-density, end-to-end system, reinventing warehouse automation for increased efficiency, speed and flexibility.
Role Summary:
We are seeking a Robotics Applications Engineer to join our Perception team. As a key contributor, you will play a hands-on role in designing and implementing next-generation perception software for our mobile robots.
Main Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and maintain high-quality robotics applications for internal users and external customers
- Develop and integrate solutions across various modules, including web-based dashboards, database, and robotics control
- Contribute to system-level software design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance
- Formulate, document, and maintain detailed requirements specifications
- Analyze requirements and develop innovative solutions or effective workarounds to meet project needs
- Identify potential project risks and proactively suggest and implement mitigation strategies
Requirements:
- Bachelor or master's degree in Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- Minimum 8 years of professional software development experience with Python and/or C
- Experience in database development using Kafka and Snowflake
- Hands-on experience with ROS, Docker, and Linux environments
- Familiarity with robotics remote operation and control applications
- Experience in developing web-based applications
- Experience with project management and collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence
- Exposure to agile development practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of computer vision applications and libraries
About Symbotic:
We are an automation technology leader reimagining the supply chain with our end-to-end, AI-powered robotic and software platform. We empower companies to move goods with unmatched speed, agility, accuracy and efficiency.
