Staff Middleware Software Engineer

Exol•Wilmington, MA

1d•$149,000 - $204,600•Onsite

About The Position

Symbotic is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Middleware Software Engineer to join their team. This role is crucial for designing, developing, and maintaining the middleware layer for all mobile robots. The engineer will collaborate with a team, take ownership of features, and provide technical expertise in areas like inter-process communication, process management, and bot logging, within a creative, collaborative, and agile development environment.

Requirements

Minimum 8 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, Robotics, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience building production-quality software in C++
Strong understanding of Linux systems, process management, networking, IPC and system services

Nice To Haves

Experience with ROS2 and DDS
Experience with TCP/IP, UDP and other network protocols

Responsibilities

Lead and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of middleware on our robotic platforms
Design and develop middleware components for robotics systems
Build and maintain logging, diagnostics, telemetry, and observability infrastructure
Develop process management systems for launching, monitoring, restarting, and supervising robotic software services
Design communication frameworks for reliable data exchange between distributed software components
Deploy, validate, and troubleshoot software on physical bots and simulation environments