Senior Software Engineer - Tooling

Exol•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Symbotic is currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Bot Platform team. In this role you will develop software tools for monitoring, diagnostics, and system administration for our fleet of autonomous mobile robots for inventory distribution management. The role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a highly multidisciplinary environment along with strong technical problem-solving skills and passion to tackle real world challenges in robotics. The team is responsible for delivering solutions for the storage and retrieval use cases performed in a fully autonomous warehouse operating 100s of mobile robots at customer sites. The role requires excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate in a highly cross-functional environments along with strong technical problem-solving skills and passion to tackle real world challenges in robotics.

Requirements

Bachelor, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer/Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Aerospace, or related discipline
Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience in developing and delivering embedded software deployed in the real world
Knowledge of Python and C++
Experience with modern production-grade software development practices, QA processes, version control tools, and CI/CD pipelines
Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain and teach technical concepts to others

Responsibilities

Build and maintain diagnostic, calibration, flashing, and command-simulation tooling for autonomous mobile robots, delivered on desktop and web platforms used by engineering, manufacturing, and field service teams
Develop monitoring and diagnostic applications to run on the embedded target to enable system introspection
Develop low-level hardware communication layers across PLC, CAN bus (Kvaser interface, CANopen SDO/PDO, motor-controller flashing protocols, custom in-house protocols), and serial peripheral buses
Design and ship REST services and IPC protocol stacks that expose firmware-layer operations plus cloud-backed configuration generation pipelines that transform engineering source data into ready-to-ship artifacts
Write production-grade Python 3.12+ and C++17+ code following established conventions
Diagnose and resolve real hardware issues on the manufacturing floor and in the field by tracing fault tables out of the PLC, debugging protocol edge cases, validating calibration of subsystems, and supporting technicians working on live vehicles
Serve as a technical lead by scoping and defining workstreams, guide project team members in their efforts, and work with the project management team to schedule and track progress
Lead design and architecture reviews to ensure that new features and code changes are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with best practices
Identify and monitor KPIs to evaluate and improve the performance of our robots and overall system solution
Be a proactive communicator who enjoys working closely with creative and technical peers
Lead and mentor junior engineers