Robotics Planning Engineer - Real-Time Fleet Orchestration

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

Job summary

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA (HQ) is seeking a Robotics Planning Engineer to design, develop, and test planning intelligence coordinating inventory flow and order fulfillment. The role spans multi-robot motion planning, tasking, inventory management, and system-wide orchestration of fleets of mobile robots across software layers.

This hands-on engineer will contribute to planning stack development, simulation, telemetry analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with robotics, perception,

Qualifications

• Experience in robotics or related software engineering roles.
• Strong programming in C++ or C# with production-quality code.
• Bachelor/Master/PhD in Robotics, CS, EE or related.
• Experience with multi-agent pathfinding and robotics motion planning.
• Ability to analyze telemetry and performance data.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test real-time planning software for large-scale robotic systems.
• Optimize algorithms for multi-robot motion planning and task allocation.
• Coordinate fleet-level orchestration with robot-level execution.
• Create simulation tools to validate planning strategies and stress-test edge cases.
• Assist deployment and triage issues; travel up to 10%.

Skills

Robotics software engineering

Multi-agent pathfinding

Robotics motion planning

Task allocation / OR

Machine learning for robotics

C++ / C# programming

Real-time decision making

Distributed / microservice arch

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in Robotics, CS, EE or related

Job description

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA (HQ) is seeking a Robotics Planning Engineer to design, develop, and test planning intelligence coordinating inventory flow and order fulfillment. The role spans multi-robot motion planning, tasking, inventory management, and system-wide orchestration of fleets of mobile robots across software layers.

This hands-on engineer will contribute to planning stack development, simulation, telemetry analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with robotics, perception,