Robotics Software Engineer - Build Autonomous Warehouse AI

Nimble Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Health Insurance

401k

Equity

Referral Bonus

Job summary

Nimble Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to build the core software powering its next-generation autonomous robots. You will design systems that enable real-time control, sensing pipelines, and high-reliability task execution in production environments.

You will collaborate with AI, hardware, and infrastructure teams to integrate frontier AI capabilities into practical robotics, continually improving uptime, performance, and overall intelligence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field.
• 1+ 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.
• Familiarity with software best practices including testing, documentation, code reviews, and robust architectural design.
• Excellent communication, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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 frontier AI models into production robot behaviors, ensuring predictable and safe performance.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering on seamless software–hardware integration for new robot platforms and upgrades.
• Contribute hands-on to testing, profiling, and optimizing our systems for robustness, low latency, and operational uptime.

Skills

Robotics SDKs integration

IoT integrations

High-reliability software

Testing & code reviews

Cross-functional collaboration

Production systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field

Job description

Nimble Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to build the core software powering its next-generation autonomous robots. You will design systems that enable real-time control, sensing pipelines, and high-reliability task execution in production environments.

You will collaborate with AI, hardware, and infrastructure teams to integrate frontier AI capabilities into practical robotics, continually improving uptime, performance, and overall intelligence.