Intern- Software Engineer

Title: Software Engineering Intern 

We want to learn from you! Our teams at Symbotic value the early career talent that helps us solve critical issues in creative and innovative ways. That is why we offer Internship and Co-op programs where students have the opportunity to work alongside industry professionals on some of our most pivotal projects. We invite students from institutions across the country to apply online or engage with our teams on campus at career fairs and other events. Symbotic offers an extensive calendar of events including Lunch and Learns, Social Outings, and Volunteer opportunities for our Interns and Co-ops to engage in.  

The Summer Intern session is a 12-week, full-time (40 hours Monday-Friday) program while the Co-op cohorts typically run 16-weeks in the Spring and Fall. In both programs, students are paid a competitive hourly rate. Continue reading to learn more about this exciting opportunity!  

About the Opportunities 

Symbotic’s Software Engineering function is a diverse community of skilled engineers who are building innovative technology across the stack. Intern opportunities in our Software function include:  

• Front-end engineers develop and enhance desktop, mobile, and web applications, optimizing performance and usability for end-users.  

• Back-end engineers develop high quality code and packages following software engineering best practices in areas such as tasking, cognitive tools, fleet orchestration, case handling, and storage and retrieval.  

• Embedded engineers design, implement, and validate Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test frameworks to ensure reliability and robustness of embedded systems.  

• Test Automation engineers triage complex onsite issues and build automated pipelines to validate new products and packaging at scale. 

What you’ll do 

• Play a hands-on role as part of an engineering team that works to design, develop, review and test new functionalities.  

• Collaborate with others on an agile/scrum team to build features based on new business requirements. 

• Evolve the current software architecture toward microservices using .NET Core, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ and Redis.   

• Contribute to a distributed architecture built on .NET using multi-threaded and multi-processor concepts.  

• Create visualizations to extract understanding of current state from logs.  

• Develop high quality code and packages following software engineering best practices. 

• Participate in customer facing calls, visits and workshops to educate and support customers on the integration requirements between Symbotic and customer systems.  

• Work with our customer's technical resources to test Symbotic integrations with their systems.  

What you’ll need 

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science or related discipline. 

• Strong object-oriented programming skills in C#, Python and C++. 

• Experience with Linux and its commands. 

• Experience with source control (git), software testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins). 

• Enjoys learning new technologies, skills, and techniques as well as teaching them to others. 

• Experience with Vitis and Vivaldo is a plus. 

• Containerized development (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) is a plus. 

• Experience with cross platform .NET core development is a plus. 

• Experience with MS SQL and the SQL language is a plus. 

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