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Robotics Planning Engineer (All Levels)

Symbotic· Engineering
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Wilmington, MA$96k - $185kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Robotics Planning Engineer to design, develop, and test planning intelligence coordinating inventory flow and order fulfillment across multi-robot systems in a dynamic warehouse environment.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • You are comfortable using simulation, experimentation, and data analysis to evaluate performance, robustness, scalability, and system-level behavior in complex planning environments.
  • You demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, collaborate effectively across disciplines, and communicate complex technical concepts clearly across both algorithm and system domains.
  • You have a Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

Skills

Required:Robotics planningMulti-agent pathfindingRobotics motion planningTask allocationOptimization
Nice to have:Simulation

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, PTO and/or other benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Symbotic

REINVENT THE WAREHOUSE. REIMAGINE THE SUPPLY CHAIN.

Symbotic Solutions are complete, end-to-end warehouse automation solutions that have the power to increase your facility’s capacity through dense storage, maximize throughput with streamlined operations, and create efficiency gains throughout your supply chain with AI-enhanced software that sees beyond your warehouse walls.

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