Symbotic

Senior Manager, Systems Engineering

Wilmington, MA
December 4, 2025
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Job Description

Who we are

Symbotic is revolutionizing the supply chain industry with its AI-powered robotic technology platform. Our intelligent software seamlessly orchestrates advanced robots within a high-density, end-to-end system, reinventing warehouse automation for increased efficiency, speed, and flexibility. 

What we need

As a Senior Manager, Systems Engineering at Symbotic, your business knowledge and technical skills will play a critical role in implementing technical strategies, evaluating products, and providing a superior level of technical cross-functional support. You will lead a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency and possess the interpersonal skills to collaborate with project managers to effectively deliver a product designed to meet customers’ needs. Qualified Systems Engineers will have a background in robotics engineering or systems engineering and analysis.

This position is specifically for a Systems Engineer in the Mechanical Engineering product space where you will help define and evaluate solution architecture and algorithms.

What you’ll do

  • Engage with customers to understand their workflows and use cases.

  • Define and drive requirement documentation, including theory of operations and metrics, for New Product Development (NPI) and system deployments to guide solution definition.

  • Creation of traceability matrix of higher-level requirements to lowest level requirements.

  • Provide feasibility and optimization studies for proposed designs.

  • Proactively initiate engagement with cross functional teams to review any deviations in requirements or system assumptions as the product or solution is developed and deployed.

  • Support validation and verification process throughout the product or component development life cycle with test plan strategies.

  • Support the creation and maintenance of system integration test plans, procedures, and reports to demonstrate desired system performance and validate system requirements.

  • Perform functional and performance analysis on collected system data; document, root cause and resolve observed issues, anomalies, and provide trouble reports.

  • Aid in the development of strategic roadmaps for products and systems.

  • Creation of material and presenting in cross functional meetings.

What you’ll need

  • Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience in Mechanical and Systems Engineering.

  • Cross-disciplinary engineering knowledge and ability to think on a product scale.

  • Ability to identify, evaluate, and demonstrate solutions to complex system problems.

  • Self-motivated and capable of working with minimal supervision to achieve aggressive project goals.

  • Experience with common engineering tools, including Pugh Matrices, 8D, DFMEA.

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

  • Comfort with a fast-paced environment.

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 bi-weekly.

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