The Role
Develop core robotic software for control, manipulation, and sensing, integrating AI capabilities for autonomous robots. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and optimize systems for reliability and performance.
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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 Staff 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
- Own and drive the architecture of critical application systems, integrations, and orchestration frameworks that power production robotics
- Identify, propose, and launch high-impact technical initiatives that improve system reliability, scalability, or developer efficiency
- Proactively uncover gaps or opportunities in system performance, architecture, or workflows, and drive solutions from concept to production
- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and long-term technical roadmaps for the robotics application stack
- Drive engineering best practices across the team by producing high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code
- Work cross-functionally with robotics engineers, ML engineers, multi-robot coordination teams, infrastructure teams, and product teams to set technical direction and align long-term priorities
- Mentor and develop engineers across the organization; provide technical leadership through design reviews and hands-on guidance
- Triage product or robotics system issues to ensure reliability of production robotics systems; Serve as an escalation point during on-call rotations, guiding diagnosis and recovery during critical system incidents
Qualifications
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field or equivalent
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong self learning and improvement mindset
- Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, Python, C++
- Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, backend services, distributed systems, and API design
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and influence technical direction across organizations.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience with CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, messaging systems
- Willingness to support production operations through an on-call rotation
Nice to have
- Experience with integrating robotics platforms, hardware devices, embedded systems, or automation systems
- Exposure to automation environments such as warehousing, manufacturing, or logistics
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
Rust
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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.
