Symbotic is looking to develop simulation systems and tools to support the design, development, qualification, and deployment of large scale integrated robotic systems for its customers, increasing efficiency, speed and flexibility in warehouse automation.
Requirements
- Minimum of 6 years of software engineering skills with deep technical expertise including simulation environments and optimization solutions.
- Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design.
- Experience with data transformation, ETL pipelines, and data wrangling using tools like Pandas, NumPy, or SQL.
- Familiarity with the current state-of-the-art and ability to draw upon a wealth of technical experience to drive difficult and impactful technological design decisions.
- Direct experience with data science workflows: experimentation, statistical analysis, and visualization.
- Ability to understand and architect a modern hierarchical simulation system for a complex Software system with varying levels of fidelity for a variety of applications.
- Plus: Experience with ML and cloud computing models and tools for training in simulation.
Responsibilities
- Develop faster than real-time and optimized simulation tools and environments for driving key design decisions for new systems and products.
- Take responsibility for creating simulations transforming production data, generating synthetic data when needed, experiment creation through analysis and developing tools to automate this workflow end-to-end.
- Analyze and evaluate existing simulation tools and drive improvements that enable faster, more scalable, efficient, and low-cost solutions for use across the Symbotic development teams.
- Lead the design and implementation of a hierarchy of simulation capabilities to support the development and analysis of both component and integrated systems-level digital twins.
- Take responsibility for all aspects of the simulation tools used throughout the organization including individual robots, perception, controls, fleet-level operations, routing, and system-wide simulations used during testing and design of new features.
- Drive project scoping and requirement specification providing senior leadership with deep technical insight needed to create long-term technical roadmaps.
- Amplify impact through other team members by serving as a technical mentor to guide the team toward innovative solutions and increased productivity.
Other
- A master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline provides the academic foundation for success.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively represent the derived results and technical concepts to leadership team.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, iterative 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.
