About the Role
Nimble is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to develop the core software for next-generation autonomous robots, focusing on reliability, precision, and efficiency in production environments. This role involves working across robot control, sensing, runtime execution, and backend services, collaborating with AI, hardware, and infrastructure teams to integrate AI capabilities and improve robot performance. It's a unique opportunity to shape the software foundation of intelligent robots and contribute to the vision of generalized robotic autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement core robotic software for real-time control, manipulation, sensing pipelines, and high-reliability task execution.
- Build tools and workflows for sensor data processing, visualization, validation, and debugging across development and production environments.
- Create automated evaluation and remote operations.
- Work closely with AI research teams to integrate new frontier AI models into production robot behaviors, ensuring predictable and safe performance.
- Collaborate with hardware engineering on seamless software–hardware integration for new robot platforms and upgrades.
- Contribute hands-on to testing, profiling, and optimizing systems for robustness, low latency, and operational uptime.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
- Experience integrating with robotics, IoT, or embedded device SDKs.
- Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain complex, high-reliability software systems.
- Hands-on development experience in Rust.
- Familiarity with software best practices including testing, documentation, code reviews, and robust architectural design.
- Excellent communication, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Skills
- Rust
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field.
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 - $210,000/year
Benefits
- Generous equity
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Commuter Benefits
- Referral Bonus
- 401k
About the Company
- 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.
- Our mission is to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.
- 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, Marc Raibert, and Sebastian Thrun.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
