Senior Robotics Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Nimble

Nimbleis an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to enable fast efficient and sustainable commerce. Were developing a general-purpose robot AI and a warehouse generalist superhumanoid robot the first robot in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions. We recently closed a $106M Series C at a $1B valuationand we are continuing to grow our world-class team.

Mission: to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.

Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends includingMarc Raibert(founder of Boston Dynamics)Sebastian Thrun(founder of GoogleX Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles) and Fei-Fei Li(Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanfords AI Lab).

Join us and leave your mark on the future of robotics AI and global commerce.

Link: Nimble Closes $106 Million Series C Funding Round Scales Fully Autonomous Fulfillment with FedEx

Link: FedEx Announces Expansion of FedEx Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance

Why Join Nimble

At Nimble we are committed to building legendary products a legendary team and a legendary legacy. Join us and become part of an ambitious humble and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce.

Nimbles Core Values:

Be relentlessly resourceful -Challenge conventions and overcome obstacles.

Be legendary -Be the very best and do work that inspires.

Be humble -Prioritize growth learning and doing whatever is needed to further the mission.

Be dependable -Take ownership and deliver with high agency.

Position Overview

Nimble is looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to build the core software powering our next-generation autonomous this role you will develop the systems that allow our robots to operate with exceptional reliability precision and efficiency in real production environments.

You will work across robot control sensing runtime execution and backend servicesbuilding robust production-grade software that scales as we deploy more robots into high-throughput warehouse operations. Youll collaborate closely with our AI hardware and infrastructure teams to integrate frontier AI capabilities into practical real-world robotics systems and to continually improve robot uptime performance and overall intelligence.

This is a rare opportunity to help define the software foundation of industry-leading intelligent robots and contribute to the long-term vision of generalized robotic autonomy at scale.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement core robotic software for real-time control manipulation sensing pipelines and high-reliability task execution.

- Build tools and workflows for sensor data processing visualization validation and debugging across development and production environments.

- Create automated evaluation and remote operations.

- Work closely with AI research teams to integrate new frontier AI models into production robot behaviors ensuring predictable and safe performance.

- Collaborate with hardware engineering on seamless softwarehardware integration for new robot platforms and upgrades.

- Contribute hands-on to testing profiling and optimizing our systems for robustness low latency and operational uptime.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Robotics or a related engineering field.

- 5 years of software engineering experience building production systems.

- Experience integrating with robotics IoT or embedded device SDKs.

- Proven ability to design implement and maintain complex high-reliability software systems.

- Hands-on development experience in Rust.

- Familiarity with software best practices including testing documentation code reviews and robust architectural design.

- Excellent communication ownership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

$190000 - $225000 a year

The above range is the salary range. You will also receive generous equity!

Culture:

We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day. Were not in this to do whats easy or to be mediocre. We want to create something legendary and leave our mark on the world. Were ambitious were gritty were humble and were relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals. If this sounds like you then you might be a great fit!

Nimble Robotics Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race color religion national origin ancestry disability medical condition genetic information marital status sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation age military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable state federal or local laws.

Nimbles Benefits

Paid Time Off

Enjoy the time you need to travel rejuvenate and connect with friends and family.

Health Insurance

Nimble provides medical dental and vision insurance through several premier plans and options to support you and your family.

Paid Parental Leave

Enjoy paid bonding time following a birth.

Commuter Benefits

Take the stress out of commuting with access to fully-paid parking spots.

Referral Bonus

Get a cash bonus for any friend or colleagues that you refer to us that we end up hiring.

401k

Contribute towards a 401k for retirement planning.

Equity

Be an owner in Nimble through our equity program

Required Experience:

Senior IC

About NimbleNimbleis an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to enable fast efficient and sustainable commerce. Were developing a general-purpose robot AI and a warehouse generalist superhumanoid robot the first robot in the world capable of performing all core warehouse function...