Software Engineer - Robotics

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San Francisco, CA
In-Office
150K-200K Annually
Artificial Intelligence • Logistics • Robotics • Transportation
The Role
About Nimble

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We’re developing a general-purpose robot AI and a warehouse generalist superhumanoid robot, the first robot in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions. We recently closed a $106M Series C at a $1B valuation, and we are continuing to grow our world-class team.

Mission: to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.

Vision: invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by industry-generalist superhumanoids to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce.

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 Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles) and Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab).

Join us and leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and global commerce.

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

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 resourcefulChallenge conventions and overcome obstacles.
Be legendaryBe the very best and do work that inspires.
Be humblePrioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission.
Be dependableTake ownership and deliver with high agency.

About the Role
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Robotics team. You will help build the application systems, integrations, and orchestration that enable robots to operate reliably in production environments. This role is about creating the software that allows robots to perform useful tasks at scale, from coordinating behaviors to integrating with enterprise systems, working closely with robotics engineers, ML engineers, multi-robot coordination teams and product teams.

Responsibilities
- Design and implement application components that coordinate robot actions, manage system state, and support operational workflows.
- Build and maintain integrations with various robot platforms, APIs, services, and data platforms.
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Develop task orchestration and system-level logic that power production robots.
- Collaborate with ML engineers and robotics engineers to integrate robot capabilities into reliable and scalable software systems.
- Work with cross-functional teams to define requirements, design architecture, and ensure system robustness.
- Work with cross-functional teams to define requirements, design architecture, and ensure system robustness.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and roadmap planning.
- Triage product or 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 or related field or equivalent 
- 0 - 3 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong self learning and improvement mindset
- Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, GoLang, Python, C++
- Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, backend services, distributed systems, and API design
- Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across disciplines
- Willingness to support production operations through an on-call rotation

Nice to have
- Experience with integrating hardware devices, embedded systems, automation systems
- Exposure to automation environments such as warehousing, manufacturing, or logistics
- Experience with CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, message brokering

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.

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

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
108 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

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.

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