Senior Robotics Middleware Engineer - Linux & ROS2

Symbotic; Wilmington (MA); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the middleware layer for mobile robots. You will own features and provide expertise in inter-process communication, process management, and bot logging in an agile environment.

You will lead middleware design on robotic platforms, build logging and telemetry infrastructure, and ensure reliable data exchange and supervision of robot services in both physical and simulated environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, robotics, engineering, or related field.
• Experience building production-quality software in C++.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, process management, networking, IPC and system services.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of middleware on robotic platforms.
• Design and develop middleware components for robotics systems.
• Build and maintain logging, diagnostics, telemetry, and observability infrastructure.
• Develop process management systems for launching, monitoring, restarting, and supervising robotic software services.
• Design communication frameworks for reliable data exchange between distributed software components.
• Deploy, validate, and troubleshoot software on physical bots and simulation environments.

Skills

C++

Linux

IPC

Process management

Logging/telemetry

Robotics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Robotics / Engineering

Tools

ROS2

DDS

TCP/IP

UDP

Job description

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the middleware layer for mobile robots. You will own features and provide expertise in inter-process communication, process management, and bot logging in an agile environment.

You will lead middleware design on robotic platforms, build logging and telemetry infrastructure, and ensure reliable data exchange and supervision of robot services in both physical and simulated environments.