The Role
Develop and optimize robotic software solutions using Rust while leading feature development, algorithm improvement, and taking ownership of the technical roadmap. Analyze systems for performance insights and mentor junior engineers in a collaborative environment.
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About Nimble
Nimble is a frontier robotics and AI company building the next era of autonomous logistics. We design, manufacture, and deploy intelligent robots that enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce at global scale. Our team is building generalized robot intelligence and developing the world’s first generalist super-humanoid robots capable of performing all core warehouse workflows with superhuman performance.
We recently closed a $106M Series C at a $1B valuation, and we are continuing to grow our world-class team. Our long-term vision is to create the Autonomous Supply Chain—reinventing how goods move through factories, warehouses, and last-mile distribution using next-generation intelligent robotic systems.
Nimble was founded out of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon’s top AI labs and is backed by the world’s most prestigious investors. Our board includes iconic leaders in AI and robotics such as Marc Raibert (Founder of Boston Dynamics), Fei-Fei Li (Former Chief Scientist of AI at Google, Director of Stanford’s AI lab), and Sebastian Thrun (Waymo, Founder of Google X, Kitty Hawk, and Udacity).
Join us and leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and global commerce.
Link: Introducing Nimble – Intelligent Fulfillment Robots at Scale
Why Join Nimble?
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 constraints.
Be legendary - Pursue excellence and craft work that inspires.
Be humble - Prioritize growth, learning, and the mission over ego.
Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with integrity.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing robotics team. You will play a critical role in working with our world-class cross-functional team to help develop and build the world’s most advanced robotic systems for the world’s biggest robotics opportunity!
Responsibilities:
Architect Software Solutions
-Craft highly performant, maintainable, scalable and fault tolerant robotics software using Rust programming language
-Welcome new challenges and work independently across disciplines to both investigate issues and identify technical solutions.
Develop robot capabilities
-Develop efficient task planning, multi-agent path planning and multi-robot coordination algorithms to improve robot efficiency and warehouse throughput
- Develop features for continued automation of warehouse tasks such as picking, packing and sorting
- Design algorithms to optimally distribute and breakdown orders into robot tasks while minimizing robot congestion
- Develop multi-robot simulation and 3D visualization software to accurately predict system behavior ahead of new customer launch and warehouse volume ramp up
- Provide input on all aspects of product development from brainstorming to final delivery. Challenge product requirements and ensure consistency across system behavior by thinking through 2nd and 3rd order effects of proposed changes.
Analytical Approach
- Analyze complex system behavior in production to derive key insights for validating feature impact, pre-evaluating future feature development and understanding performance bottlenecks of the system
Technical Ownership
- Hands on execution: Own development of algorithms, software infrastructure, coding, testing infrastructure, CI, on-call production support for live production, and debugging on production incidents and performance bottlenecks
- End to end ownership: Take full ownership of landing large feature initiatives with technical design creation, technical design reviews, and delegating development tasks to others.
Technical Leadership
- Continuous improvement: Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency). Uphold a high bar.
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
- Drive feature development and launch. Manage the team’s backlog, support sprint planning, and cross-disciplinary hand-offs with operations, hardware, robot software and cloud logistics software teams.
- Serve as a mentor for junior engineers. Influence the overall technical roadmap for the team
Qualifications:
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of industry experience
- Experience with relevant programming languages such as Rust, Golang, Python or C++ etc.
- Experience simulating, debugging and analyzing Autonomous systems, Robotics, or other highly complex systems
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience with containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
- Good understanding of database systems such as Postgres, Scylladb.
- Good understanding of writing unit and integration tests
- Good understanding with lower-level Operating Systems (Linux)
Nice to have:
- Experience with data engineering technologies such as Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Parquet, Arrow or similar.
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!
Press:
Link: Nimble Closes $106 Million Series C Funding Round, Scales Fully Autonomous Fulfillment with FedEx
Link: FedEx Announces Expansion of FedEx Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance
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
Paid 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
Top Skills
Airflow
Apache Kafka
Arrow
AWS
Azure
C++
Docker
Flink
GCP
Go
Kubernetes
Parquet
Postgres
Python
Rust
Scylladb
Spark
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The Company
What We Do
Nimble is pioneering intelligent robotic manipulation to reinvent eCommerce fulfillment. Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. We're backed by famed robotics and AI legends like Fei-Fei Li and Sebastian Thrun.
Today, we provide end-to-end robotic picking solutions for goods-to-person picking, put-wall sorting and induction for eCommerce order fulfillment. Our robots integrate into production in 1 day requiring no changes to the WMS/WCS. Our solutions provide a stable labor force, cost savings, reduction in staffing churn, and boosted efficiencies. Using our proprietary human-in-the-loop supervision and AI framework we deliver unmatched reliability in handling any product from day 1.
