Robotics Software Engineer — Build Autonomous Warehouse AI

Nimble; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; 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 seeks a Robotics Software Engineer to build the core software powering our autonomous robots for high-throughput warehouses. You will develop real-time control, sensing, and backend services, collaborating with AI, hardware, and infrastructure teams to improve uptime and performance.

This role offers strong growth, competitive equity, and a mission to redefine automation in supply chains. A Bachelor's in CS/Robotics and 1+ years in production systems are preferred.

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.
• Hands-on development experience in Rust.
• Familiarity with 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 new 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

Bachelor's degree in CS/Robotics

Rust

Software engineering

Real-time control

Sensing pipelines

Testing & documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Robotics SDKs (IoT/embedded)

Rust tooling

ROS (Robot Operating System)

Job description

Nimble seeks a Robotics Software Engineer to build the core software powering our autonomous robots for high-throughput warehouses. You will develop real-time control, sensing, and backend services, collaborating with AI, hardware, and infrastructure teams to improve uptime and performance.

This role offers strong growth, competitive equity, and a mission to redefine automation in supply chains. A Bachelor's in CS/Robotics and 1+ years in production systems are preferred.