Senior Software Engineer - Tooling
Company: Symbotic
Location: Austin, TX 78744
Salary: $138,075 - $204,600 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-07-15
About this role
Who we are
With its A.I.-powered robotic technology platform, Symbotic is changing the way consumer goods move through the supply chain. Intelligent software orchestrates advanced robots in a high-density, end-to-end system – reinventing warehouse automation for increased efficiency, speed and flexibility.
What we need
Symbotic is currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Bot Platform team . In this role you will develop software tools for monitoring, diagnostics, and system administration for our fleet of autonomous mobile robots for inventory distribution management. The role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a highly multidisciplinary environment along with strong technical problem-solving skills and passion to tackle real world challenges in robotics.
What we do
The team is responsible for delivering solutions for the storage and retrieval use cases performed in a fully autonomous warehouse operating 100s of mobile robots at customer sites. The role requires excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate in a highly cross-functional environments along with strong technical problem-solving skills and passion to tackle real world challenges in robotics.
What you'll do
- **Build and maintain diagnostic, calibration, flashing, and command-simulation tooling** for autonomous mobile robots, delivered on desktop and web platforms used by engineering, manufacturing, and field service teams
- **Develop monitoring and diagnostic applications** to run on the embedded target to enable system introspection
- **Develop low-level hardware communication layers** across PLC, CAN bus (Kvaser interface, CANopen SDO/PDO, motor-controller flashing protocols, custom in-house protocols), and serial peripheral buses
- **Design and ship REST services and IPC protocol stacks** that expose firmware-layer operations plus cloud-backed configuration generation pipelines that transform engi...