Procurement Specialist (Buyer)
Job Description
What we need
Symbotic is seeking a highly motivated Buyer (Bots) to join our Supply Chain organization. This role will support the procurement and execution of complex robotic systems and components through key manufacturing and supply partners. The ideal candidate brings strong supplier management, analytical, and problem-solving skills and is comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. This individual will work closely with suppliers and internal teams to ensure material availability, resolve supply issues, execute purchase orders, manage changes, and support cost and delivery objectives.
What we do
Our global procurement organization partners closely with the business to build category strategies that drive competitive advantage. We own strategic sourcing and supplier agreements end-to-end — from commercial and pricing structures through supplier relationship management — while our sourcing operations ensure disciplined execution at scale. Our scope spans the full lifecycle: procuring robotics, structural, and automation components at the core of our systems, sourcing third-party partners for installation and deployment, and ensuring robust aftersales support once systems are live — all in service of Symbotic's commitment to reimagining the supply chain and transforming the movement of goods through intelligent automation, while bringing unparalleled value to the customer. Every decision is grounded in a relentless focus on total cost of ownership, balancing speed and rigor to drive the best outcomes for the business.
What you’ll do
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Manage day-to-day purchasing activities for robotic systems, components, and related materials across a complex supplier base.
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Work closely with contract manufacturers and key suppliers to manage order execution, material availability, capacity, and delivery performance.
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Partner with Planning, Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Strategic Sourcing to align supply requirements with production and project needs.
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Monitor supplier performance and provide timely visibility into material status, shortages, delivery risks, and recovery plans.
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Expedite critical materials and drive suppliers to resolve delivery, quality, pricing, and capacity issues.
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Support supplier negotiations, cost-reduction initiatives, and commercial discussions in partnership with sourcing and category leadership.
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Manage purchasing impacts associated with engineering changes, demand changes, and evolving program requirements.
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Identify supply risks and escalate issues early while working across internal and external stakeholders to drive resolution.
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Analyze purchasing and supplier data to identify opportunities to improve cost, delivery, inventory, and overall supplier performance.
What you’ll need
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Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.
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Minimum of 3 years of experience in purchasing, procurement, supply chain, or a related function.
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Experience working with complex suppliers, contract manufacturers, or outsourced manufacturing partners.
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Strong working knowledge of ERP systems and purchase order management; SAP experience strongly preferred.
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Experience managing material requirements, supplier delivery schedules, shortages, and order changes.
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Strong supplier management, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
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Ability to work effectively across Engineering, Planning, Operations, Quality, Finance, and other cross-functional teams.
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Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
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Experience supporting robotics, electronics, electromechanical products, automation equipment, or other complex manufactured products is preferred.
Our Environment
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Up to 10% travel may be required.
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Employees may be required to use a personal credit card for business travel expenses, which are reimbursed based on the program guidelines. Eligible employees may receive a corporate credit card based on role and travel requirements, but a personal credit card may be needed during onboarding until the corporate card is issued.
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Atlassian Administrator
Job Description
What We Need
Symbotic is seeking an Atlassian Administrator to support the configuration, governance, maintenance, and continuous improvement of our Jira Cloud platform for Software Engineering. In this role, you will ensure our engineering and operational teams can effectively plan, track, and deliver work through well-structured workflows, standardized processes, and scalable project configurations.
You will partner closely with Engineering, Program Management, and the core Atlassian Admin team to maintain Jira workflows, reporting structures, and platform standards that support consistent ways of working across the organization. Beyond day-to-day administration, you will monitor platform usage, identify process drift, and provide guidance to help teams align with established practices.
What We Do
The team drives the operational foundation, and delivery standards that power Symbotic’s software organization. Operating at the intersection of complex robotic automation, large-scale systems engineering, and modern software practices, our mission is to establish repeatable planning processes, drive operational governance, and provide accurate cross-functional visibility into engineering execution and delivery timelines.
As we continue to scale our engineering footprint, we are building a standardized, data-driven Jira environment—aligning multi-disciplinary engineering teams into structured team spaces, establishing multi-tier program hierarchies, and automating routine workflows through custom Atlassian Rovo Agents and enterprise integrations. By unifying planning, roadmap execution, and real-time delivery metrics, we empower software teams to ship faster, collaborate seamlessly, and provide clear visibility to leadership without reliance on manual tracking or disparate tools.
What you’ll do
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Administer, configure, and maintain Jira Cloud projects, custom workflows, issue types, custom fields, and permission schemes to support engineering teams.
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Partner with Engineering Leadership and Program Management to translate complex engineering process requirements into scalable Jira workflows and reporting solutions.
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Audit Jira configurations, workflow adoption, and data quality to identify process drift, provide coaching, and ensure alignment with established engineering standards.
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Build and maintain boards, dashboards, and Jira Plans to deliver program tracking, release visibility, and cross-functional roadmap alignment.
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Design, build, and deploy custom Atlassian Rovo Agents and MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integrations to automate ticket triage, draft acceptance criteria, sync contextual data across external tools, and optimize engineering workflows.
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Implement, maintain, and troubleshoot integrations between Jira Cloud and enterprise platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, GitHub/GitLab).
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Provide day-to-day tier-2/3 user support and troubleshooting for software engineering teams.
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Document configuration changes, administrative guidelines, and end-user best practices.
What you’ll need
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent technical experience.
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Minimum of 3 years of hands-on Jira Cloud administration experience, including advanced workflow creation, JQL, automation rules, and scheme management.
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Strong experience architecting cross-functional workflows and leveraging Jira Plans for multi-stakeholder roadmap planning and tracking.
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Proficiency in creating dashboards, reporting structures, and metrics that provide clear visibility into engineering execution and delivery progress.
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Hands-on experience configuring AI-driven workflow automations using Atlassian Rovo or connecting external LLM agents to Jira/Confluence via MCP APIs.
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Experience configuring and supporting integrations between Jira Cloud and external enterprise systems.
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Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills.
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Atlassian Certified Professional (ACP) designation (e.g., Jira Cloud Administrator) is a plus.
Our environment
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Up to 10% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
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Employees may be required to use a personal credit card for business travel expenses, which are reimbursed based on the program guidelines. Eligible employees may receive a corporate credit card based on role and travel requirements, but a personal credit card may be needed during onboarding until the corporate card is issued.
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Advanced Industrial Controls Engineer
Job Description
What we need
We are seeking an Advanced Industrial Controls Engineer. The candidate is part of our Industrial Automation team and will be reporting to the Senior Manager Industrial Controls Engineering and have a leadership role in driving the execution of the PLC development and implementation. The ideal candidate is customer-driven, proactive, and comfortable taking the initiative to gather information and collaborate directly with end users to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.
What you'll do
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Elaborate, define, and plan technical work from well-defined objectives, validating requirements with internal and external stakeholders.
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Elaborate and lead the execution of test strategies, execute test plan, generate test reports, and demonstrate compliance with requirements.
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Independently execute technical work, which may involve the technical supervision of other resources.
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Autonomous and self-driving, requiring minimal supervision.
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Lead improvement initiatives, review and approve technical solutions within existing architectures.
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Coach and develop lesser experienced employees.
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Gather information and validate requirements to execute root cause analysis to resolve issues with internal and external stakeholders.
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Provide new control system functionalities and modify existing solutions which includes PLC and HMI.
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Document equipment configuration, system functionality and features, and Industrial Controls team processes and procedures.
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Collaborate with Release management and perform PLC and HMI updates for the customer, on-site or remotely.
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Support customers to address unforeseen issues.
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Lead the design effort for a dedicated system.
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Contribute to and potentially lead process improvement initiatives.
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Support Production Sites.
What you'll need
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Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering or Automation Engineer or Computer science or in a related discipline.
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Knowledge of Power Systems to design drive controls.
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Experience with AC/DC Drive Control Architecture.
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Minimum of 5 years in Design & Implementation of Industrial Control systems using PLCs, HMIs, and Drives.
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Minimum of 5 years’ of Programming PLCs, HMIs, and related equipment for Industrial Control Systems (Rockwell products preferred).
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Minimum of 5 years’ experience with automated systems engineering.
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Advanced experience programming Rockwell PLC’s (ControlLogix, GuardLogix).
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Advanced knowledge of Industrial networks.
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Experience developing and programming Human Machine Interface (Ignition 8, FactoryTalk ME/SE).
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Able to understand and read electrical and mechanical schematics.
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Strong background in troubleshooting complex automated system.
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Experience with JIRA and agile methodology is a plus.
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Having experience of organizing a team and prioritizing tasks.
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Knowledge in Rockwell and Inductive Automation products is a plus.
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Travel approximatively 40% to various customer locations (Canada and United States).
Our environment
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Up to 45% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
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The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.
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Director, FP&A Research & Development
Job Description
What we need
As the Director, FP&A – R&D, you will serve as the dedicated finance business partner to Symbotic's R&D organization, providing strategic financial leadership on headcount capacity, project-level expense planning, and R&D's long-range strategic plan. You will oversee the embedded FP&A analyst(s) supporting R&D, ensure strong financial rigor and alignment with the broader Corporate FP&A team, and serve as a trusted advisor to R&D leadership, influencing investment decisions and resource prioritization through clear, data-driven financial storytelling.
Relocation benefit is available for qualified new hires.
What we do
Corporate FP&A is part of the Finance organization and is responsible for enterprise headcount and cost planning, the annual operating plan and quarterly forecasts, long-range strategic planning, financial modeling and scenario analysis, and finance business partnership with functional organizations including R&D. The team also owns corporate-level reporting, including Board decks, monthly results reviews, and flash reporting, and supports ad-hoc strategic and corporate development projects.
What you'll do
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Serve as the primary Finance Business Partner to the R&D organization, supporting R&D leadership on financial strategy and investment decisions.
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Lead R&D's annual operating plan, long-range planning, quarterly forecasts, and monthly financial reviews, ensuring alignment with overall corporate planning cycles.
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Own headcount capacity planning and project-level expense planning for R&D, partnering with engineering and program leaders to align resourcing with roadmap priorities.
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Partner with Engineering, Product, and Program Management teams to evaluate investment opportunities, new development initiatives, and project business cases.
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Develop financial models to support R&D investment decisions, project-level business cases, technology development, and resource trade-off analysis.
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Drive prioritization across the R&D portfolio by evaluating financial impact, strategic alignment, and resource allocation across competing initiatives.
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Build dashboards and reporting that improve visibility into R&D spend, headcount utilization, and investment effectiveness for R&D and Corporate FP&A leadership.
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Deliver executive-ready financial analyses and recommendations that influence R&D strategic and resourcing decisions.
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Monitor R&D spending against plan, proactively identify risks and opportunities, and recommend corrective actions.
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Support corporate-level reporting as needed, including R&D-related content for the Board deck, monthly results reviews, and flash reporting.
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Lead, coach, and develop the embedded FP&A analyst(s) supporting R&D, building a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
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Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, automate reporting, and simplify financial analysis across the R&D finance function.
What you'll need
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Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required; MBA or CPA preferred.
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Minimum 12 years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering with an R&D, Engineering, or similar technical organization.
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Experience supporting R&D or product development functions within a technology, robotics, or complex manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.
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Demonstrated leadership experience managing and developing finance professionals.
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Experience working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and matrixed organization.
Our environment
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Up to 10% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
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Employees may be required to use a personal credit card for business travel expenses, which are reimbursed based on the program guidelines. Eligible employees may receive a corporate credit card based on role and travel requirements, but a personal credit card may be needed during onboarding until the corporate card is issued.
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Senior Manager, Reliability Engineering
Job Description
What we need
Exol is seeking a Senior Manager, Reliability Engineering who will be responsible for establishing and scaling a reliability-driven maintenance and asset performance program across Exol’s highly automated warehouse operations. This role ensures that equipment, automation, and infrastructure are designed, maintained, and operated to deliver predictable uptime, safety, and cost control especially during startup, ramp-up, and network expansion.
This role operates centrally, with direct influence across sites, and serves as the enterprise owner of reliability strategy.
What we do
Exol is pioneering warehousing-as-a-service, offering outsourced warehousing operations, and specializing in automated warehousing solutions. Our focus is on the efficient movement of goods in cases and pallets across all sectors, such as wholesale, retail, and general merchandising.
Exol is an independently managed joint venture between Symbotic and Softbank.
What you’ll do
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Own and scale the reliability strategy for automated fulfillment and material handling operations.
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Establish enterprise reliability standards and performance expectations across sites.
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Identify critical assets and failure risks impacting throughput, safety, and cost, lead root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
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Design risk-based maintenance approaches aligned to business impact and asset criticality.
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Partner with Automation and Engineering teams to influence system design for long term reliability.
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Define reliability data standards, KPIs, and reporting within CMMS and related systems.
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Analyze downtime, performance trends, and cost drivers to support staffing, capital, and vendor decisions.
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Support new site launches by ensuring reliability readiness, documentation, and clean handoff to operations.
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Standardize learnings to enable repeatable, predictable site deployments at scale.
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Lead OEM and vendor partnerships, including performance governance and escalation management.
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Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, IT, Safety, Finance, and Supply Chain to align reliability priorities.
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Communicate risks, trends, and improvement opportunities clearly to senior leadership.
What we need
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Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Reliability, or related field) or equivalent experience required.
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Minimum 12 years of experience in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, or asset performance roles.
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Experience supporting automated or highly mechanized environments such as robotics, AS/RS, conveyors, AGVs, or automated material handling systems.
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Proven experience influencing multi-site operations or enterprise programs preferred.
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Startup, ramp up, or greenfield launch experience strongly preferred.
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Strong understanding of reliability principles, asset lifecycle management, and failure analysis.
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Demonstrated ability to translate technical issues into business risk and financial impact.
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Experience working with CMMS platforms and performance reporting tools.
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Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
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Ability to lead through influence rather than direct authority.
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Clear, concise communication skills suitable for executive audiences.
Physical & Environment Requirements
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Ability to work in active warehouse and automation environments, including multi-level structures and elevated platforms.
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Must be able to comply with all safety requirements, including PPE, LOTO, and fall protection standards.
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Extended onsite presence may be required during critical launches or stabilization periods.
Our Environment
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Up to 60% travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
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The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.
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Repair Supervisor
Job Description
What we need
Symbotic is looking for people who thrive in fast-paced, solutions-oriented, and creative environments. The primary responsibility of the Repair Supervisor is to supervise a group of employees/contractors in all duties required of a repair technician and provide feedback to management any discrepancies in material or process that affect the quality of the robotic vehicle or the efficiency of the repair process.
What we do
The Repair Operations team is part of the Service Center of Excellence which is responsible for service, repair, testing, evaluation, and field support. They manage repairs of mobile robots and electromechanical subassemblies in the Symbotic Wilmington location. They primarily focus on supporting repair and related spare parts material needs to support customer service requirements. The Repair Operations team collaborates closely with other departments to support repair needs and to continuously improve quality and reliability of the products.
What you’ll do
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Leads production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel, accomplishing work results, establishing priorities, monitoring progress, revising schedules, resolving problems, and reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
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Maintain compliance with the current schedule.
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Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying and setting procedures, rules, and regulations.
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Strong technical knowledge of all aspects of electro-mechanical assembly.
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Supervise a group of employees/contractor, 10 to 15 members.
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Ensure team follows all company policies and procedure.
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Maintain stock of all tools and consumables in good working order.
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Document employee’s performance, training, and attendance.
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Demonstrate good time management and organization skills.
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Through understanding of safety and best practices in a manufacturing environment.
What you’ll need
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Degree from a vocational school/college within a mechanical discipline or minimum of 7 years in a manufacturing environment.
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Minimum of 5 years of previous experience in the Machine Shop or Manufacturing Assembly Environment.
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Computer knowledge using Microsoft Windows & Microsoft Word & Excel.
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Experience with ERP applications such as SAP or Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) preferred.
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Experience in Robotic environment preferred.
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Previous leadership preferred.
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Initiative-taking and highly organized.
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Able to lift 60 pounds and can stand for extended periods of time.
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Possess an understanding of diverse types of mechanical and/or electrical test equipment.
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Ability to manage multiple tasks.
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Demonstrates initiative and is self-motivated.
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Hands-on skill set required; ready to learn, absorb, and utilize information in a demanding environment.
Our Environment
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There will be steep stairs to climb into the structure. You may be required to routinely walk up and down stairs to navigate the automation structure.
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You will regularly be near railings that are high off the ground.
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Subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily temperature changes. Must be capable of working in temperatures ranging from 105° to 32° Fahrenheit.
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AT times you may be at a construction site with PPE required (hard hat, safety vest, steel toes, eyeglasses, ear protection, fall protection (e.g., safety harness).
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Frequent ability to safely and efficiently lift items weighing up to 50lbs and move items weighing up to 80lbs.
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Stand/walk for up to 10-12 hours and is frequently required to walk and reach with hands and arms.
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The employee is routinely required to work at heights of up to 45 feet and within restrictive areas of 24 inches. Where you may need to be able to stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
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Must be capable of occasional and/or continuous feeling, seeing, hearing, bending, twisting, stooping, pushing, pulling, balancing, gripping, climbing, crawling, sitting, handling objects, and repetitive movement using both hands and feet. Must comply with all safety requirements and protocols, including without limitation Lock out tag out safety protocols and fall protection safety protocols.
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Senior Analyst, Workday Integrations & Reporting
Job Description
What we need
As the Senior Analyst, Workday Integrations & Reporting, you will serve as a key technical partner in the ongoing administration, optimization, and expansion of Workday integrations and reporting capabilities. In this role you will support critical data flows between Workday and external systems, ensures high-quality analytics and insights through advanced reporting, and partners closely with HR, IT, and Finance stakeholders to enhance system automation and data integrity. We are seeking someone who is hands-on, detail-oriented, and is passionate about building scalable HR technology solutions through clean integration, strong governance, and actionable reporting. This position reports to the Lead, Senior HRIS Analyst.
What we do
The HRIS (Human Resources Information Systems) team is part of the Human Resources organization and is responsible for the administration, optimization, and strategic evolution of our HR technology ecosystem. We ensure secure, accurate, and efficient management of employee data and HR processes, while enabling the business through modern systems, automation, and insights.
What you’ll do
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Serve as a technical owner for Workday integrations and reporting, supporting ongoing operations and future enhancements.
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Design, build, and maintain Workday integrations, including inbound/outbound EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio integrations (as applicable), and vendor file feeds.
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Partner cross-functionally with HR, IT, Payroll, Benefits, and external providers to ensure seamless data exchange and integration reliability.
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Develop and maintain custom Workday reports, calculated fields, dashboards, and analytics to support HR operations, compliance, and leadership decision-making.
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Monitor integration performance, troubleshoot errors, and ensure timely resolution of issues impacting downstream systems.
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Participate in Workday release management, including regression testing and validation of integration and reporting functionality.
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Triage and resolve HRIS requests through ServiceNow in a timely, service-oriented manner.
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Ensure strong data governance, audit readiness, and process efficiency through documentation, controls, and routine system checks.
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Maintain system documentation, integration build/runbooks, and reporting standards to support scalability and continuity.
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Provide consultative guidance and training to HR partners and stakeholders on reporting tools and integration impacts.
What you’ll need
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Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
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Minimum 8 years’ experience, including minimum 3 years of hands-on Workday integration experience.
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Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with a passion for clean systems and accurate data.
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Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
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Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment.
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Experience with change management processes and testing cycles.
Strong knowledge of Workday reporting tools, including:
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Advanced, Matrix, Composite reports
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Calculated fields
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Dashboards and analytics
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Workday reporting security
Experience supporting Workday integrations and data exchange methods such as:
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EIBs: Inbound and outbound. Custom XLST transformations.
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Core Connectors
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PICOF/PECI/CCW/API’s (preferred)
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Encryption: PGP, AS2/X.509, Digital Signatures
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Workday Studio exposure a plus
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Workday Integration Pro Certification a plus
Our Environment
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Up to 10% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
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Employees may be required to use a personal credit card for business travel expenses, which are reimbursed based on the program guidelines. Eligible employees may receive a corporate credit card based on role and travel requirements, but a personal credit card may be needed during onboarding until the corporate card is issued.
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Site Installation Manager
Job Description
What we need
The Installation Manager will work with multi-discipline contractors, commissioning technicians, design engineering, project management, and testing teams to lead the overall installation of both structural systems, racking, and automated equipment on customer sites. The Site Installation Manager primary goal is to ensure the system is installed in a timely manner, within budget, and delivered without defect through commissioning and testing to the operations team. This position will be a highly visible role and interact with all departments and levels across the company including executive management.
This is a high-travel, site-based role requiring approximately 80% of travel throughout the year. The Site Installation Manager is expected to work primarily at active customer installation sites for the duration of the project.
What we do
The Site Installation team oversees the installation of Symbotic automation systems on customer sites. They are responsible for ensuring the systems are installed as designed and at a high quality on schedule and under budget. This group will partner very closely with the Symbotic PM and commissioning team.
What you’ll do
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Manage and lead site specific Requests for Information (RFIs); Receive, escalate, and respond to all contractor and vendor RFIs in accordance with process SLAs.
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Manage and update Golden Prerequisite (GPR)- Maintain daily site installation progress and commissioning readiness through the GPR tool.
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Maintain and Manage Site Bulletins to ensure site contractors and vendors understand the detail and scope of work for engineering bulletins, maintain bulletin matrix, validate work completion.
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Manage and lead and validate contractors and vendors deliver quality by 650 Checklists.
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Monitor and ensure that all missing material request validation requested from site are verified, recorded properly, and documented in the missing material matrix along with a root cause.
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Support Field Change Request (FCR) Validation for site efforts in reviewing and assessing the validity of site FCRs along with the resource requirements and cost before project management issuance of purchase orders.
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Upon the completion of Mechanical and Electrical installation scope, support the site team in the demobilization of all installation resources and materials.
What you’ll need
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Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline or related field required.
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Minimum of 7 years trade experience in integration, construction management, or automation installation required.
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Minimum 3 years experience supervising or managing teams, trades contractors.
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Experience with industrial/robotic automation projects and ASRS projects.
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Good negotiation and relationship skills, both in directing the technical team and ability to manage and reach solutions to competing priorities.
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Experience with using metrics and data analysis to drive process improvements.
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Ability to provide critical technical thinking at the team level to trigger appropriate discussions around requirements, design, and process challenges that the team may face.
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Ability to travel up to 80%.
Our Environment
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Hybrid, travel-based position. Access to major airport preferred.
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Travel is required up to 80% of the time. Employee must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations. Our main office is in Wilmington, MA. The person taking this position will be required to perform work at our customer installation locations for extended periods of time where equipment is installed and ready for commissioning.
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The employee is responsible to own a credit card and manage expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.
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The employee is frequently required to walk and reach with hands and arms.
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The employee is routinely required to work at heights of up to 45 feet and within restrictive areas of 24 inches. to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
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The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
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Must comply with all safety requirements and protocols, including without limitation Lock out tag out safety protocols and fall protection safety protocols.
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Approximately 80% of time will be spent on a construction site with PPE required (hard hat, safety vest, steel toes, eyeglasses, ear protection, fall protection (e.g., safety harness).
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There will be steep stairs to climb into the structure. You may be required to routinely walk up and down stairs to navigate the automation structure.
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You will regularly be near railings that are high off the ground.
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Subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily temperature changes. Must be capable of working in temperatures ranging from 105° to 32° Fahrenheit.
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Technical Program Manager
Job Description
What we need
As a Technical Program Manager, you will partner closely with engineering leadership, technical leads, and product teams to ensure complex programs are delivered on time and with high quality. You'll play a key role in driving execution, managing risk, and creating alignment across multiple teams working on sophisticated software, robotics, and automation systems.
What we do
The team is responsible for delivering complex automation and software solutions that sit at the intersection of robotics, intelligent systems, and large-scale operational execution. Comprised of talented software engineers, roboticists, and systems engineers, the organization develops technologies that optimize how inventory moves through highly automated environments.
As the team continues to scale, we are looking for a Technical Program Manager who can drive alignment, execution, and operational excellence across multiple engineering disciplines while helping deliver innovative solutions that have a direct impact on customers and business performance.
What you'll do
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Partner with engineering managers, technical leads, and product managers to drive execution across complex technical programs.
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Identify technical and program risks early, helping teams navigate challenges before they impact delivery.
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Ensure work is effectively prioritized, tracked, and executed through disciplined program management practices.
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Drive accountability by ensuring tasks, actions, dependencies, and ownership are clearly defined.
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Facilitate cross-functional meetings and communicate program status, risks, and milestones to both engineering teams and executive leadership.
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Leverage data and reporting tools, including SQL, to provide visibility into program health and execution metrics.
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Foster a culture of transparency, collaboration, and rapid decision-making across technical and business teams.
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Support the successful delivery of innovative solutions in a fast-paced, highly technical environment.
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Continuously look for opportunities to improve processes, accelerate execution, and enhance cross-functional coordination.
What you'll need
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Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
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Minimum of 10 years of professional experience with at least 3+ years leading complex technical programs or projects.
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Experience working with engineering organizations that develop sophisticated software, hardware, robotics, automation, infrastructure, or other highly technical products.
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Strong program management skills with the ability to coordinate priorities across multiple stakeholders and teams.
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Experience using Jira to organize work, manage execution, and drive accountability.
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Ability to write SQL queries and use data to inform decisions and communicate program status.
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Proven experience facilitating meetings, driving alignment, and leading discussions among highly technical stakeholders.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively from individual contributors through executive leadership.
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Demonstrated ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with competing priorities and evolving requirements.
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High-energy, results-oriented leader with strong ownership, learning agility, and the ability to influence without authority.
Our environment
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Up to 20% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
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Employees may be required to use a personal credit card for business travel expenses, which are reimbursed based on the program guidelines. Eligible employees may receive a corporate credit card based on role and travel requirements, but a personal credit card may be needed during onboarding until the corporate card is issued.
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Job Description
What we need
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Middleware Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining our middleware layer for all mobile robots. You will work with a team of engineers and be responsible for feature ownership, providing technical expertise in areas such as inter process communication, process management, and bot logging. We are looking for a person who thrives in a creative, collaborative, and agile development environment.
What we do
We are a talented team of roboticists and software engineers responsible for all software and firmware aspects of our mobile robots. These mobile robots are responsible for handling cartons inside the warehouse structure, moving them to and from storage locations. The mobile robots are key to the efficient operation of the Symbotic systems, and their reliability is paramount.
What you'll do
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Lead and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of middleware on our robotic platforms.
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Design and develop middleware components for robotics systems
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Build and maintain logging, diagnostics, telemetry, and observability infrastructure.
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Develop process management systems for launching, monitoring, restarting, and supervising robotic software services.
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Design communication frameworks for reliable data exchange between distributed software components.
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Deploy, validate, and troubleshoot software on physical bots and simulation environments.
What you'll need
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Minimum 8 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, Robotics, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Experience building production-quality software in C++.
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Strong understanding of Linux systems, process management, networking, IPC and system services.
Nice to Have
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Experience with ROS2 and DDS.
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Experience with TCP/IP, UDP and other network protocols.
Our environment
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Up to 10% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
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The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.
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