Senior Safety Firmware Engineer – Embedded
Listed on 2026-05-29
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Software Development
Embedded Software Engineer, Robotics
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.
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
We are looking for a Senior Safety Firmware Engineer to join our Safety Software team within our Functional Safety organization. Your job will be to architect, develop, and maintain safety-critical firmware and embedded software for real-time compute platforms that support Symbotic’s advanced robotics systems. You will design and develop software strategies for ARM-based platforms with functional safety requirements, helping ensure our automation systems operate safely, reliably, and at scale.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on embedded systems, real-time operating systems (RTOS), and safety-critical software development. You will work closely with hardware, systems, and cross-functional engineering teams to design fail-safe mechanisms, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and develop robust embedded platforms for next-generation warehouse automation.
What We Do
The Safety Software team is part of the Functional Safety organization, which is responsible for delivering high-performance safety controls and monitoring systems for Symbotic’s advanced warehouse automation solutions. The team develops embedded safety-critical software that enables reliable, compliant, and safe operation across robotic systems and automation platforms.
We work at the intersection of embedded firmware, systems engineering, hardware integration, and functional safety. Our engineering culture emphasizes technical rigor, ownership, thoughtful planning, and long-term maintainability. We value engineers who contribute to strong technical debate, high-quality software, and continuous improvement.
What You’ll Do
- Design and develop software strategies for real-time ARM-based compute platforms with functional safety requirements.
- Develop, document, and maintain embedded software in C along with Linux and shell scripting solutions using Python, Bash, and related tools.
- Design redundancy and fail-safe software mechanisms through failure mode analysis to ensure safe system operation under fault conditions.
- Create and maintain C-based unit and integration tests to verify embedded functionality and achieve software quality and test coverage goals.
- Support system testing, integration, and validation activities for components and subsystems.
- Collaborate closely with hardware engineering teams to review schematics and develop software for custom hardware peripherals and interfaces.
- Troubleshoot production and design-related issues through log analysis, debugging, root cause analysis, and board bring-up activities.
- Participate in rigorous code and design review processes to maintain software quality, traceability, and engineering best practices.
- Support functional safety activities including hazard analysis, DFMEA, FMEDA, fault tree analysis, and functional safety reviews.
- Utilize Git and software development processes to ensure maintainable, traceable, and well-documented software development.
- Travel up to 25% to support testing, system integration, and cross-functional collaboration across Symbotic locations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related engineering discipline.
- Minimum of 8 years of professional experience developing real-time embedded software, firmware, or device drivers.
- Strong experience developing embedded software in C within real-time or embedded operating systems environments.
- Deep understanding of RTOS concepts and experience with platforms such as QNX, VxWorks, FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, or similar.
- Strong knowledge of POSIX…
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