Robotics Software Engineer — Build Real-World Autonomy

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

Referral Bonus

401k

Equity

Job summary

Nimble Brain is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to build the core software powering our next-generation autonomous robots in production environments. You will develop systems for real-time control, sensing, and backend services, integrating frontier AI capabilities with hardware teams to optimize uptime and performance.

You will collaborate across robot control, sensing, and runtime execution, delivering robust, scalable software for high-throughput warehouses and industrial automation.

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 interfaces integrations

High‑reliability software

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science/Robotics/Engineering

Job description

Nimble Brain is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to build the core software powering our next-generation autonomous robots in production environments. You will develop systems for real-time control, sensing, and backend services, integrating frontier AI capabilities with hardware teams to optimize uptime and performance.

You will collaborate across robot control, sensing, and runtime execution, delivering robust, scalable software for high-throughput warehouses and industrial automation.