Senior Software Systems Engineer — Robotics & Execution

Symbotic LLC; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

401K

PTO

Job summary

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA is seeking a Senior Software Systems Engineer to anchor core software delivery in a new Systems Engineering function. You will define concepts of operations, drive requirements, manage risk, and lead through influence across multiple teams while ensuring traceability and architectural integrity across the stack from hardware interfaces to system software.

This senior IC role emphasizes autonomy, formal stage-gate practices, and a data-backed approach to trade-offs,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, CS, CE, or Systems Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years in Systems Engineering, Software Architecture, or Senior/Lead level Software Engineering.
• Experience authoring System Requirements, Concepts of Operations, and Technical Trade-off Analyses.
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering processes, product lifecycle management, stage gate development, and verification/validation frameworks.
• Strong background in systems-level programming languages, distributed systems, concurrency, and hardware/software integration.
• Experience with DFMEA, Pugh matrices, and 8D.

Responsibilities

• Deconstruct large, ambiguous requests and author the Concept of Operations: the user, environment, inputs and outputs, system states, and what the system will and will not do
• Capture and translate customer and business needs into Functional Requirements that are complete, verifiable, and aligned with customer and business priorities
• Decompose Functional Requirements further into specific software component and application requirements
• Create and maintain traceability from system-level Functional Requirements down to software component requirements
• Own the software risk register: identify, document, and mitigate risks such as performance bottlenecks, latency, memory limits, and failure states before they reach production
• Conduct impact assessments for proposed changes, evaluating cross-team dependencies, interfaces, and trade-offs
• Run technical trade-off analyses (for example speed vs. memory, scalability vs. time to market) and present recommendations and their consequences to leadership
• Guide the core software team on delivering business value in phases, prioritizing the most impactful items first
• Establish and continuously improve Symbotic's Systems Engineering practices, scaling the discipline across teams, product families, and initiatives
• Set verification and validation strategy and support functional integration test plans that demonstrate performance against requirements
• Act as the connective layer between leadership and development teams, working across silos and preparing and presenting system-level updates and recommendations

Skills

System requirements & CoO

Risk identification & mitigation

Translating ideas to verifiable reqs

Systems engineering processes

Distributed systems programming

DFMEA & 8D

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Industrial/CS/CE or Systems Engineering

Masters or MBA preferred

Tools

DFMEA

Pugh matrices

8D

Job description

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA is seeking a Senior Software Systems Engineer to anchor core software delivery in a new Systems Engineering function. You will define concepts of operations, drive requirements, manage risk, and lead through influence across multiple teams while ensuring traceability and architectural integrity across the stack from hardware interfaces to system software.

This senior IC role emphasizes autonomy, formal stage-gate practices, and a data-backed approach to trade-offs,