- Robot type
- Warehouse and Logistics
- Location
- WilmingtonNorth CarolinaUSA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- Jul 30, 2026
- Salary
- $120,000–$165,000 a year
Full-time
Robotics Planning Engineer (All Levels)
Job description
We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.
Symbotic is an automation technology leader reimagining the supply chain with its end-to-end, AI-powered robotic and software platform. Symbotic reinvents the warehouse as a strategic asset for the world’s largest retail, wholesale, and food & beverage companies.
We are a community of innovators, collaborators and pioneers who embrace our differences, because we know unique perspectives make us stronger and smarter. Every perspective matters.
Job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test real-time, high-performance planning software for large-scale robotic systems, with scope spanning routing, tasking, inventory flow, and system design.
- Build and optimize algorithms and services for multi-robot motion planning, task allocation, inventory-aware decision-making, and traffic management in dynamic warehouse environments.
- Develop planning logic that coordinates behavior across software layers, connecting robot-level execution with fleet-level orchestration and higher-level system objectives.
- Create simulation and modeling tools to validate planning strategies, stress-test edge cases, and evaluate system robustness, throughput, and operational trade-offs under realistic conditions.
- Integrate planning solutions into production systems, analyze telemetry and performance data, and collaborate cross-functionally with robotics, perception, controls, cloud, operations, and systems engineering teams.
- Support production deployments by triaging issues, improving diagnostics, documenting technical designs, and driving continuous improvement across the planning stack. Up to 10% travel may be required.
Job requirements
- You have experiences in robotics, algorithm development, or related software engineering roles.
- You have strong experience in one or more of the following areas: Multi-agent Pathfinding and heuristics search
- Robotics motion planning
- Task allocation, inventory management systems, and operation research
- Machine learning for robotics planning or large-scale decision making
- Real-time decision-making systems, and micro-service cluster architecture
- You have strong programming skills in object-oriented languages such as C# or C++, and you apply sound software engineering practices to production-quality code.
- You have a strong background in data structures, algorithms, optimization, distributed or multi-agent systems, and designing software that coordinates behavior across components and layers.