Senior Robotics Perception Engineer - Vision & Simulation

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

Job summary

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA seeks a Senior Robotics Engineer specializing in Robot Perception to advance perception systems for our warehouse automation platform. You will lead architectures that fuse vision, planning, and manipulation, and create scalable datasets from millions of daily cases.

The role emphasizes real-time decision-making, simulation enhancements using NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to push state-of-the-art robotics research into

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (PhD is a plus) in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of robotics engineering and robot perception software development experience.
• Expertise in C++, C#, and/or Python with strong CV fundamentals (segmentation, detection, tracking, pose estimation).
• Experience building and managing large-scale datasets and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with NeRFs, Gaussian Splatting, LLMs, and diffusion methods.

Responsibilities

• Develop Advanced Perception Systems: design architectures integrating vision and deep learning.
• Maintain Software Engineering Excellence with reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Collaborate with planning teams to embed perception data into control pipelines.
• Optimize decision-making workflows for real-time robotic actions.
• Create and curate datasets from millions of daily cases with automated labeling and QA.
• Enhance simulation environments to bridge sim-to-real using Gaussian Splatting, NeRFs, GenAI.
• Drive research and mentor junior engineers across cross-functional teams.
• Foster collaboration and continuous learning within the organization.

Skills

C++

C#

Python

Computer vision

Object detection

Pose estimation

Sensor fusion

Data pipelines

System integration

PyTorch

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Robotics/CS/EE

PhD is a plus

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA seeks a Senior Robotics Engineer specializing in Robot Perception to advance perception systems for our warehouse automation platform. You will lead architectures that fuse vision, planning, and manipulation, and create scalable datasets from millions of daily cases.

The role emphasizes real-time decision-making, simulation enhancements using NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to push state-of-the-art robotics research into