Senior Robotics Software Engineer – Autonomy for Warehouses (Equity)

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 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.