Senior Robotics Applications Engineer - Perception - Military Veterans
at Symbotic LLC
Time type: full time
Posted on: December 30, 2024
Job requisition id: R4390
What we need
Symbotic is looking for a Robotics Applications Engineer to join our Perception team. You will play a hands-on role in the design and implementation of the next generation of perception software for our mobile robots. The qualified candidate will play a hands-on role helping to bring our robotics solutions to our customers. We are looking for people who thrive in a creative, collaborative and agile development environment.
What we do
Our work matters - robotics is transforming the world of commerce. Every day our intelligent robots are responsible for getting food and merchandise to thousands of stores across North America. We're an industry changer - we created the first and only fully autonomous, end-to-end supply chain solution. Today, we are driving towards even bigger ideas - and we have the people, technology, and leadership to fully realize these aspirations. We have the excitement and ambition of a startup with the benefits and resources of a proven organization.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand technical and business requirements.
- 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.
- Create, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans; identify and fix bugs while ensuring the integrity of the existing codebase.
- 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.
- Up to 10% travel may be required
What you'll need
- 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.
- Experience in messaging systems such as RabbitMQ and/or ZeroMQ
- Hands-on experience with ROS, Docker and Linux environments.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Familiarity with robotics remote operation and control applications is a big plus
- 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.
- Familiarity with graphical user interfaces (GUI) development
- Knowledge of computer vision applications and libraries.
Our Environment
- Up to 10% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver's license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
- The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.
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Symbotic® has developed proprietary and innovative robotics and software to deliver an advanced automation solution to make the supply chain faster, more efficient and more profitable for manufacturers, distributors and retailers of all sizes. In assembling our talented workforce, we’ve brought together some of the region and industry’s top intellectuals, engineers and other multifaceted professionals. Many of our employees are mechanical, electrical and software engineers, but we’re always on the lookout for talented professionals looking to join our team. Search our jobs database or contact us directly at careers@symbotic.com Symbotic is headquartered in Wilmington, MA, and has offices in Montreal, QC, Canada.