Robotics Software Engineer, Nimble Brain

Nimble

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 230,000

Full time

39 hours ago

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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

About Nimble

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce. We're training robot AGI to power a proprietary generalist supply chain superhumanoid, the first robot in the world capable of performing thousands of tasks across the supply chain. We've raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue. We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world's best engineers and operators. If you are obsessed with your craft, enjoy a high-intensity and fast moving high impact environment, are super high agency in getting hard things done and want to be part of building the world's most legendary robotics company at the most pivotal moment in history, we want to work with you. We are on a mission to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. We will accomplish this by training robot AGI to invent and build the Autonomous Supply Chain - everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door - powered by generalist superhumanoids. Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends including Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford's AI Lab), Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), and Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles). Let's be legendary.

About The Role

Nimble is looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to build the core software powering our next-generation autonomous robots. In 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 services—building robust, production-grade software that scales as we deploy more robots into high-throughput warehouse operations. You’ll 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 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.

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 software best practices including testing, documentation, code reviews, and robust architectural design.
Excellent communication, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Compensation & Benefits

The pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $140,000 and $230,000/year. Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this position will also receive generous equity for this position.

Culture

We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day. We’re not in this to do what’s easy or to be mediocre. We want to create something legendary and leave our mark on the world. We’re ambitious, we’re gritty, we’re humble and we’re 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.

Nimble's Benefits

Unlimited Flexible 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