What we do

The Minibot team is developing an innovative mobile robot platform for the Symbotic Breakpack system. The mobile robot controls team is responsible for delivering production software that runs on a large fleet of mobile robots across a network of customer sites.

What we need

Symbotic is currently seeking a Senior Manager, Mobile Robot Controls to lead the Mobile Robotics Control team. In this position you will lead a team developing the entire robot software stack for a large fleet of autonomous mobile robots. A successful candidate must understand the importance of fostering a strong team environment a culture of innovation. This role requires high-level architecture and design, along with low-level programming, excellent communication and leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate in a highly cross-functional environment along with strong technical problem-solving skills and passion to tackle real world challenges in robotics.

What you'll do

• Build, motivate, coach, and reward a diverse team of Embedded Software Engineers

• Deliver high quality releases that meet project commitments

• Collaborate with other engineering teams on planning, design, and development for releases

• Keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions

• Managing the day-to-day activities of approximately 10-12 engineers

• Manage both in house and outsourced embedded software engineering teams

• Translate strategic objectives into tactical action plans and establish teams which can execute those plans

• Provide technical leadership to the broader mobile robotic controls team to deliver quality solutions that support high volume production environments

• Identify and monitor KPIs to evaluate the performance of our robots and overall system solution

• Occasional (<10%) travel to customer sites is required

What you'll need

• Bachelors, masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Robotics, Aerospace, or related discipline

• Minimum 10 years of demonstrated experience in development of algorithms for mobile robot motion planning & control, manipulation, localization, and navigation

• Minimum 5 years of experience leading or managing teams

• Experience with modern production-grade software development practices, QA processes, and version control tools

• Demonstrated ability to deliver robotics software products deployed in the real world

• Knowledge of C++ coding and design patterns suitable for real time environments, in both embedded and Linux target environments

• Experience with of real time and/or embedded operating systems and threading and communication issues related to real time operating systems and system implementation

• Comfort with numerical programming tools for data analysis (Python, Julia, Matlab, Tableau, etc.)

• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain and teach technical concepts to others

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