Robotics Planning Engineer - Multi-Robot Orchestration

Symbotic; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K

PTO

Job summary

Symbotic is seeking a Robotics Planning Engineer to design, develop, and test planning software coordinating inventory flow and multi-robot motion within its high-density warehouse system. You will bridge robot-level execution with fleet-wide orchestration and contribute to fast, robust planning in dynamic environments.

Ideal candidates bring strong C++/C# programming, expertise in motion planning, task allocation, and real-time decision-making, and hold a related Bachelor's to PhD in Robotics,

Qualifications

• Experience in robotics, algorithm development, or related software engineering.
• Strong programming skills in object-oriented languages such as C# or C++, with production-quality code practices.
• Background in data structures, algorithms, optimization, distributed or multi-agent systems.
• Experience using simulation, experimentation, and data analysis to evaluate performance and robustness.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test real-time, high-performance planning software for large-scale robotic systems, spanning routing, tasking, inventory flow, and system design.
• Build and optimise algorithms and services for multi-robot motion planning, task allocation, inventory-aware decision-making, and traffic management in dynamic warehouse environments.
• Develop planning logic that coordinates behaviour across software layers, connecting robot-level execution with fleet-level orchestration and higher-level system objectives.
• Create simulation and modelling tools to validate planning strategies, stress-test edge cases, and evaluate system robustness, throughput, and operational trade-offs under realistic conditions.
• Integrate planning solutions into production systems, analyse telemetry and performance data, and collaborate cross-functionally with robotics, perception, controls, cloud, operations, and systems engineering teams.
• Support production deployments by triaging issues, improving diagnostics, documenting technical designs, and driving continuous improvement across the planning stack. Up to 10% travel may be required.

Skills

Robotics planning

Multi-agent pathfinding

Robotics motion planning

Task allocation

Inventory management

Machine learning for robotics planning

Real-time decision-making

C++

C#

Software engineering practices

Distributed systems

Data analysis / simulation

Education

Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. in Robotics, CS, Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

C++

C#

Micro-service architecture

Job description

Symbotic is seeking a Robotics Planning Engineer to design, develop, and test planning software coordinating inventory flow and multi-robot motion within its high-density warehouse system. You will bridge robot-level execution with fleet-wide orchestration and contribute to fast, robust planning in dynamic environments.

Ideal candidates bring strong C++/C# programming, expertise in motion planning, task allocation, and real-time decision-making, and hold a related Bachelor's to PhD in Robotics,