Real-Time Multi-Robot Planning Architect

Symbotic; Wilmington (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Symbotic seeks a Robotics Planning Engineer to design, develop, and test real-time planning software coordinating inventory flow and fleet orchestration across large-scale robotic systems. You will build algorithms for multi-robot motion planning, task allocation, and traffic management.

You will connect robot-level execution with fleet-level objectives, create simulations to validate strategies, and support production deployments across robotics, perception, controls, cloud, and systems teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in robotics, algorithm development, or related software engineering roles.
• Expertise in multi-agent pathfinding or heuristics search.
• Experience with robotics planning, task allocation, and inventory management systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test real-time planning software for large-scale robotic systems.
• Build and optimize algorithms for multi-robot motion planning, task allocation, and traffic management.
• Develop planning logic to coordinate software layers and fleet orchestration.
• Create simulation and modeling tools to validate planning strategies and stress-test edge cases.
• Integrate planning solutions into production systems and collaborate across robotics, perception, controls, cloud, and systems engineering teams.
• Support deployments by triaging issues and driving continuous improvement. Up to 10% travel.

Skills

Multi-agent pathfinding

Robotics motion planning

Task allocation

Inventory management systems

Large-scale decision making

Real-time decision-making

C++

C#

Data structures & algorithms

Distributed systems

Simulation & data analysis

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor / Master / Ph.D. in Robotics, CS, EE or CE

Tools

Simulation tools

Job description

Symbotic seeks a Robotics Planning Engineer to design, develop, and test real-time planning software coordinating inventory flow and fleet orchestration across large-scale robotic systems. You will build algorithms for multi-robot motion planning, task allocation, and traffic management.

You will connect robot-level execution with fleet-level objectives, create simulations to validate strategies, and support production deployments across robotics, perception, controls, cloud, and systems teams.