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Senior Simulation Robotics Engineer

Senior Simulation Robotics Engineer

companySymbotic
locationWoburn, MA, USA
PublishedPublished: 1/22/2025
Engineering
Full Time

Senior Simulation Robotics Engineer

Time type: full time

Posted on: January 20, 2025

Job requisition id: R4487

What we need

As a Senior Robotics Engineer, you will play a key role in the development of simulation systems and tools responsible forsupporting the design, development, qualification, and deployment of large scale integrated robotic systems for our customers. We are looking for people who thrive in a creative, collaborative, and agile development environment.

What you'll do

  • Develop faster than real-time and optimized simulation environments for driving key design decisions for new systems and products
  • Analyze and evaluate existing simulation tools and drive improvements that enable faster, more scalable, efficient, and low-cost solutions for use across the Symbotic development teams
  • Lead the design and implementation of a hierarchy of simulation capabilities to support the development and analysis of both component and integrated systems-level digital twins 
  • Take responsibility for all aspects of the simulation tools used throughout the organization including individual robots, perception, controls, fleet-level operations, routing, and system-wide simulations used during testing and design of new features
  • Drive project scoping and requirement specification providing senior leadership with deep technical insight needed to create long-term technical roadmaps 
  • Amplify impact through other team members by serving as a technical mentor to guide the team toward innovative solutions and increased productivity.

What you'll need

  • A master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline provides the academic foundation for success.
  • Minimum 6 years of software engineering skills with deep technical expertise including insimulation environments and optimization solutions.
  • Familiarity with the current state-of-the-art and ability to draw upon a wealth of technical experience to drive difficult and impactful technological design decisions 
  • Ability to understand and architect a modern hierarchical simulation system for a complex robotics system with varying levels of fidelity for a variety of applications
  • Direct experience with developing simulations, digital-twins, and faster than real-time virtual environments for real-world applications. 
  • Plus: Experience with Nvidia Omniverse, Unity, Blender, or other rendering engines
  • Plus: Experience with ML and cloud computing models and tools for training in simulation
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively represent the derived results and technical concepts to leadership team.

Our environment

  • 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. 
  • 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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