Staff Software Engineer - Lift Controls

Exol•Wilmington, MA

2d•$149,000 - $204,600•Hybrid

About The Position

Symbotic is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Platform Services team. This role involves designing and developing core supervisory control software for coordinating lift subsystems in large-scale warehouse automation environments. The engineer will work with distributed systems and physical automation, focusing on high-level control logic for lift scheduling, item sortation, fault recovery, and system orchestration. The position requires strong real-time systems thinking, comfort with hardware-adjacent software, and the ability to debug complex interactions between software and electromechanical components. Symbotic is looking for engineers who thrive in a creative, collaborative, and agile development environment and are passionate about building resilient, high-availability systems that operate safely and reliably.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline required.
Minimum of 8 years of professional software development experience using C#, C++, or Java.
Strong experience building distributed, real-time, or event-driven systems.
Strong hands-on problem solver with excellent software design and implementation skills.
Experience with asynchronous and multithreaded programming models.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing supervisory control layers for industrial automation, robotics, or material handling systems preferred.
Familiarity with PLC-integrated systems and hardware-adjacent software architectures is a strong plus.
Development experience across both Windows and Linux environments.
Proficiency in cross-platform .NET Core development.
Working knowledge of Redis in-memory data stores.
Familiarity with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems.
Solid understanding of microservices architectures and common design patterns.

Responsibilities

Design and develop high-level supervisory control systems for lift subsystems within automated warehouse environments.
Implement real-time distributed software responsible for lift dispatching, traffic coordination, prioritization, and throughput optimization.
Build fault-tolerant control logic to manage degraded modes, fault isolation, and safe recovery of lift operations.
Develop software that interfaces with PLC-controlled lift hardware via well-defined messaging and service boundaries.
Analyze distributed automation systems using performance monitoring, profiling, and debugging tools to identify latency, bottlenecks, and failure patterns.
Support system bring-up, integration testing, and on-site validation of lift supervisory control functionality.
Contribute to architecture decisions involving scalability, high availability, and operational resiliency.
Collaborate cross-functionally with controls engineers, robotics teams, hardware engineers, and field support teams.