Manager, Bot Controls - Case Handling
Time type: full time
Posted on: August 08, 2025
Job requisition id: R5214
What We Need
Symbotic is currently seeking an experienced leader to join our Bot Controls team. They understand the importance of fostering a strong team environment and the ability to develop trusting relationships with their team members. We are looking for a creative and collaborative person who thrives in an agile development environment. This role manages a talented team of roboticistsworking on our Symbot mobile robot. The team is primarily responsible to develop solutions to the challenges in handling diverse individual cases in a warehouse environment with high reliability. Not only is high-level technical contribution expected, but the role also requires excellent communication and leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate in a highly cross-functional environment.
What We Do
We are a talented team of roboticists working on the heart of Symbotic’s automation solution – Symbot, the mobile robot. We are responsible for delivering solutions for the storage and retrieval of cases performed in a fully autonomous structure operating 1,000s of Symbots at customer sites.
What You'll do
- Building, motivating, and coaching a diverse team of roboticists and software engineers.
- Meeting project commitments and delivering high quality releases.
- Collaborating with other engineering teams on planning, design, and development for releases.
- Using your technical skills to contribute to architecture and design discussions.
- Managing the day-to-day activities of approximately 10-15 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.
- Continue to build the team by hiring and onboarding new engineers and then cultivating their careers from there.
What you'll need
- Minimum of 10 years of embedded software development experience (design and implementation)
- At least 3 years focused on leading or managing teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
- Knowledge of C++ Embedded coding and design patterns, suitable for real time environments.
- Detailed knowledge of state estimation
- Knowledge of real time or embedded operating systems and threading and communication issues related to real time operating systems.
- Solid experience with software process and version control tools.
- Expert level communication (oral and written) and documentation skills; must be comfortable explaining complex software systems and programming concepts.
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 on a bi-weekly basis.
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