Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer

Nimble Robotics; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Health Insurance

401k

Equity

Referral Bonus

Job summary

Nimble Robotics is hiring a Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer to own the electrical health of our warehouse robot fleet—from hardware bring-up to deployment. You will diagnose faults on power distribution boards, motor controllers, and logic boards, and drive corrective actions with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities include field triage, test planning, fixture creation, and validating end-to-end electrical integration with firmware and software.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field.
• 5+ years in systems integration, hardware validation, or test engineering for robotics or complex hardware.
• Hands-on experience diagnosing board-level failures in power distribution, motor control, and digital logic.
• Strong understanding of power electronics and safety in lab/factory environments.
• Proficiency in Python for test automation and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Field diagnosis, triage, and root cause analysis of electrical failures on deployed robots.
• Own electrical integration and validation for next-gen hardware; plan tests and verify harnesses.
• Write and run electrical test plans (DVT/PVT, HALT/HASS, EMC pre-compliance, reliability tests).
• Build test fixtures, automated test scripts, and diagnostic tools for field and manufacturing use.
• Communicate failure impact, root cause, and fixes to engineering leadership and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Root cause analysis

Test automation

Python

Firmware debugging

Hardware validation

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

DMMs

Logic analyzers

CAN bus analyzers

Electronic loads

Bench supplies

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).

At Nimble, we are committed to building legendary products, a legendary team, and a legendary legacy. Join us and become part of an ambitious, humble, and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce.

Nimble's Core Values:

Be relentlessly resourceful-Challenge conventions and overcome obstacles.

Be legendary-Be the very best and do work that inspires.

Be humble-Prioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission.

Be dependable-Take ownership and deliver with high agency.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer with deep electrical engineering expertise to own the electrical health of our warehouse robot fleet, from next-generation hardware bring-up to field deployment. You will sit at the intersection of Electrical Engineering, Firmware, Mechanical Engineering, Software, and Operations.

Your core mission is to be the person who finds out why a robot's electrical system failed. You will diagnose and triage faults in power distribution boards, logic boards, and motor controller boards, drive root cause to closure, and turn what you learn into design, test, and process changes that keep a production fleet running at its SLA.

Responsibilities

Field diagnosis, triage & root cause analysis

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for electrical failures on deployed robots: power loss, brownouts, resets, communication dropouts, motor controller faults, and intermittent e-stops.
• Triage field incidents quickly and decide what is a board fault, a harness or connector fault, a firmware issue, or a mechanical or environmental cause.
• Mine fleet telemetry, error codes, and logs to spot failure trends, separate systemic issues from one-off failures, and rank fixes by fleet impact.
• Debug embedded firmware on STM32-class microcontrollers alongside the firmware team: decode fault and error flags, read crash dumps and fault registers, and attach a debugger (JTAG/SWD) to a live or failed board.
• Tell hardware faults apart from firmware faults, such as watchdog resets, ISR timing overruns, misconfigured protection thresholds, or bad build configurations.

Systems integration & test

• Own electrical integration and validation for next-generation hardware: board bring-up, power-on and power-sequencing tests, harness verification, and system-level integration with firmware and robot software.
• Write and run electrical test plans: DVT/PVT, HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, EMC pre-compliance, and long-duration duty-cycle and reliability testing.
• Build test fixtures, automated test scripts, and diagnostic tools that field and manufacturing teams can use to triage faults themselves.

Closing the loop

• Turn root causes into concrete corrective actions: board revisions, component changes, firmware fixes, test coverage, and field service procedures.
• Communicate failure impact, root cause, and fix status clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years in systems integration, hardware validation, or test engineering for robotics, electromechanical, automotive, or similar complex hardware products.
• Proven hands-on experience diagnosing board-level failures in power distribution, motor control, and digital logic or controller boards, in the lab and in the field.
• Strong understanding of power electronics: DC-DC conversion, battery systems, protection circuits, MOSFET switching, gate drivers, and BLDC/PMSM motor drives.
• Comfortable with lab tools: oscilloscopes (including current probes and differential probes), DMMs, electronic loads, bench supplies, logic analyzers, and CAN bus analyzers.
• Able to read and work from schematics, PCB layouts, datasheets, and wiring harness drawings, and to do component-level rework and probing.
• A track record of leading root cause investigations to closure, with documented corrective actions that measurably reduced field failures.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar) for test automation and analysis of logs and telemetry data.
• Strong written communication: you can turn a messy field failure into a clear RCA that hardware, firmware, and operations teams can all act on.
• Willingness to travel to warehouse sites for on-site diagnosis (up to ~20%).

What Success Looks Like

• Electrical field failures get a confirmed root cause and a corrective action, not just a board swap.
• Repeat electrical failure modes across the fleet go down, and robot downtime from electrical faults drops measurably.
• Field technicians can triage common electrical faults on their own, using the guides and tools you built.
• Next-generation boards reach production with known failure modes already found and fixed in validation, not in the field.

Compensation

The pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $160,000 and $190,000/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'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

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