Staff Software Engineer — Real-Time Fleet Robotics Leader

Symbotic; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 204,600; Full time

Job summary

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA (HQ) is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Fleet Operations team. You will design and build real-time software that orchestrates fleets of autonomous robots across multiple sites, while mentoring engineers and driving performance improvements.

You will contribute to a scalable, event-driven stack with RabbitMQ/MQTT/gRPC, and work across tasking, structure, and bot control interfaces to ensure reliable, high-performance operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, or related STEM field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience.
• At least 1 year of experience in technical leadership or team lead role.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design and programming concepts, with C# preferred.
• Experience with asynchronous or multithreaded programming.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging protocols such as RabbitMQ, MQTT, or gRPC.
• Exposure to robotic-related technologies is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop real-time, high-performance software for fleets of mobile robots.
• Analyze fleet performance and contribute to improvements in key metrics and KPIs.
• Develop high-quality, robust software in a fast-paced environment.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead technical efforts across projects.
• Identify and address root causes of software performance issues.
• Develop and maintain unit and system-level tests for production software.

Skills

C#

Object-oriented design

Asynchronous programming

Multithreading

Event-driven architectures

RabbitMQ

MQTT

gRPC

Robotics exposure

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related STEM

Tools

RabbitMQ

MQTT

gRPC

Job description

Symbotic in Wilmington, MA (HQ) is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Fleet Operations team. You will design and build real-time software that orchestrates fleets of autonomous robots across multiple sites, while mentoring engineers and driving performance improvements.

You will contribute to a scalable, event-driven stack with RabbitMQ/MQTT/gRPC, and work across tasking, structure, and bot control interfaces to ensure reliable, high-performance operations.