Robotics Backend Engineer (AI/ML Infra)

Nimble; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Health Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Commuter Benefits

Referral Bonus

401k

Equity

Job summary

Nimble is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Nimble Brain team, focusing on backend and robotics infra powering our robot-enabled products. You will design and ship reliable services, APIs, and tooling, working closely with AI and product teams.

Responsibilities include building scalable backend services, coordinating long-running workflows, and driving engineering best practices across the team. On-call rotation and mentorship are part of the role.

Qualifications

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong self-learning and improvement mindset.
• Proficiency in Rust, Python, or C++.
• Strong fundamentals in backend services, distributed systems, data modeling, and API design.
• Experience designing scalable systems and leading complex technical projects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with robotics, ML, and product teams to define requirements and turn them into well-architected software systems.
• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that support production workflows and customer-facing features.
• Own integrations between multi-agent systems, cloud infrastructures, internal tooling, and robot-facing interfaces.
• Build orchestration and state management services coordinating long-running processes.
• Improve reliability and scalability through testing, observability, incident response, and performance tuning.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning sessions.
• Mentor engineers and improve team processes and standards.
• Join on-call rotations to diagnose production issues.

Skills

Rust

Python

C++

Backend services

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Nimble is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Nimble Brain team, focusing on backend and robotics infra powering our robot-enabled products. You will design and ship reliable services, APIs, and tooling, working closely with AI and product teams.

Responsibilities include building scalable backend services, coordinating long-running workflows, and driving engineering best practices across the team. On-call rotation and mentorship are part of the role.