Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Nimble Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Health Insurance

Referral Bonus

401k

Equity

Job summary

Nimble Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Robotics to build core software powering our autonomous robots for high-throughput warehouses.

You will develop reliable, production-grade systems and integrate AI capabilities with hardware for scalable performance. You will collaborate with AI, hardware, and infrastructure teams to improve uptime, precision, and overall intelligence in production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor, Master, or PhD in CS, Robotics, or related engineering.
• 5+ years of software engineering in production robotics.
• Proficiency in Rust, Python, or C++.
• Experience integrating software with sensors and embedded systems.
• Familiar with testing, documentation, code reviews, architecture.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and on-call readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of robot behaviors and task-level intelligence across the full robotics stack, integrating perception, planning and control into reliable end-to-end execution.
• Design and implement task orchestration and robot behaviors across nominal and edge-case scenarios, ensuring high task success rate and robust recovery.
• Drive measurable improvements in autonomy quality, using data and operational metrics to iterate on task success rate, recovery behavior, and system reliability.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering on seamless software–hardware integration for new robot platforms and upgrades.
• Participate and lead technical design reviews and drive architecture decisions for core subsystems and features.
• Mentor cross-functional engineers and technicians, and raise the bar on reliability, testing, and operational excellence.
• Triage robotics system issues to ensure reliability of production robotics systems; help diagnose and resolve operational issues when they arise

Skills

Robotics software

C++

Python

Rust

Embedded systems

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in CS/Robotics or related engineering

Tools

ROS

RTOS

Job description

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

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Robotics 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 robotics and autonomy—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.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of robot behaviors and task-level intelligence across the full robotics stack, integrating perception, planning and control into reliable end-to-end execution.
• Design and implement task orchestration and robot behaviors across nominal and edge-case scenarios, ensuring high task success rate and robust recovery.
• Drive measurable improvements in autonomy quality, using data and operational metrics to iterate on task success rate, recovery behavior, and system reliability.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering on seamless software–hardware integration for new robot platforms and upgrades.
• Participate and lead technical design reviews and drive architecture decisions for core subsystems and features.
• Mentor cross-functional engineers and technicians, and raise the bar on reliability, testing, and operational excellence.
• Triage robotics system issues to ensure reliability of production robotics systems; help diagnose and resolve operational issues when they arise

Qualifications

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production robotics systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, Python, C++
• Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain complex, high-reliability software systems.
• Experience integrating software with sensors, actuators and embedded systems.
• 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 skills and ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams
• Willingness to support production operations through an on-call rotation.

Nice to have

• Exposure to automation environments such as warehousing, manufacturing, or logistics
• Experience with real-time embedded system development, with RTOS or bare-metal firmware
• Experience with safety-critical systems

What else to know

This role is an in-office, 5 days a week role in San Francisco, CA.

$190,000 - $250,000 a year

The above range is the salary range. This position will also receive generous equity!

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. Enjoy paid bonding time following a birth. 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