Principal Robotics Engineering - Routing
Time type: full time
Posted on: September 10, 2024
Job requisition id: R3955
What we need
We are looking for a Principal Robotics Engineer to join our Routing team. You will play a technical leadership role in the development of core robot components responsible for orchestrating inventory into the Symbotic system and order fulfillment out to customers. We are looking for people who thrive in a creative, collaborative and agile development environment.
What we do
The routing algorithm is one of the core technology advancements that unlock future productivity improvements for the mobile robots and the Symbotic System overall. Our routing team has already enabled 20-25% productivity improvement in the system to date and our engineers continue to push the boundaries of what is possible. The Routing team is part of the Robot Perception and AI team, which is responsible for building our major robot – Symbot.
What you will do
- Develop real-time and near-optimal fleet routing systems to enable efficient routing of bots in the Symbotic fleet
- Analyze and evaluate existing fleet performance and lead technical design projects to increase performance along key business and customer requirements and company KPIs
- Lead the design and implementation of simulation capabilities to support the development and analysis of routing and tasking algorithms
- Take responsibility for all aspects of optimal fleet routing and scheduling, cost/performance tradeoffs and short- and long-term business impact
- 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
- Up to 10% travel may be required
What you will need
- Minimum 12 years of extensive software engineering skills with deep technical expertise in algorithms 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 distributed scheduling and routing architecture for a complex robotics system
- Direct experience with developing routing, fleet operations, and/or scheduling algorithms in real-world applications
- Plus: Experience designing simulation techniques for evaluating and analyzing routing solutions at scale
- Plus: Experience with ML cloud computing models and tools (CUDA, WandB, TFX, TensorBoard, KFP, etc.)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively represent the derived results and technical concepts to leadership team
Our environment
- Up to10% 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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