Software Engineer, Nimble Brain

present of AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nimble seeks a backend and systems engineer to coordinate robots and warehouse operations. You will build distributed services, APIs, and data models that run in production, ensuring reliability and scalability.

You will lead design reviews, mentor teammates, and own on-call reliability. Familiarity with Rust, Python, or C++ helps bridge software and AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, and data modeling.
• Hands-on experience with Rust, Python, or C++.
• Ability to lead design reviews and mentor others.
• Experience with production reliability and on-call handling.

Responsibilities

• Build distributed services and orchestration for robot systems.
• Lead design reviews and mentor teammates.
• Ensure production reliability, observability, and on-call readiness.
• Collaborate with AI team on orchestration and state management.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Data modeling

Rust

Python

C++

Mentorship

On-call

Job description

The role is backend and systems engineering for the software layer that coordinates robots and warehouse operations. A strong candidate brings solid fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, and data modeling, plus hands on work in Rust, Python, or C++. The job also expects someone who can lead design reviews, mentor others, and handle production reliability including on call.

How it fits the AI era

The work sits next to an AI team, so the engineer builds the services and orchestration that let AI driven robot systems run in production. Much of the value is in making long running processes reliable, observable, and scalable, which stays human work even as AI assists with coding and monitoring. Judgment about system design, failure handling, and cross team coordination remains central.

How it builds AI experience

The role offers exposure to multi agent systems and robot facing interfaces inside an AI robotics company building autonomous fulfillment centers. A candidate can build relevant experience by working on orchestration, state management, and observability for complex automated workflows. Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI CD helps bridge software and AI operations.

Worth showing

• Rust or Python or C++
• API and data modeling
• Observability and reliability
• Cross team collaboration

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About Nimble

Nimble provides fully autonomous fulfillment centers powered by AI robotics, per the company.