Staff Middleware Engineer — Robotics Platforms & Telemetry

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

Benefits offered by this job

medical

dental

vision

disability

401K

PTO

other benefits

Job summary

Symbotic LLC seeks a Staff Middleware Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the middleware layer for our mobile robotic platforms. You will lead feature ownership and contribute to IPC, process management, and bot logging in a collaborative, agile environment.

You will enable reliable data exchange across distributed components, build telemetry and observability, and deploy software on physical bots and simulations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, Robotics, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Production-quality software experience in C++.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, process management, networking, IPC and system services.
• Nice to Have ROS2 and DDS.
• Experience with TCP/IP, UDP and other network protocols.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of middleware on our 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

Process management

Networking

IPC

Education

Bachelors in CS/Robotics/Engineering

Tools

ROS2

DDS

Job description

Symbotic LLC seeks a Staff Middleware Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the middleware layer for our mobile robotic platforms. You will lead feature ownership and contribute to IPC, process management, and bot logging in a collaborative, agile environment.

You will enable reliable data exchange across distributed components, build telemetry and observability, and deploy software on physical bots and simulations.