Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Nimble Robotics
$140-180k
+ Equity
Fully autonomous fulfilment
Be an early applicant
Fully autonomous fulfilment
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-180k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable affordable same-day fulfilment for every eCommerce retailer, large and small.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field
- 5+ 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
What the job involves
- Nimble is looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to build the core software powering our next-generation autonomous robots. In this role, you will develop the systems that allow our robots to operate with exceptional reliability, precision, and efficiency in real production environments
- You will work across robot control, sensing, runtime execution, and backend services—building robust, production-grade software that scales as we deploy more robots into high-throughput warehouse operations
- You’ll collaborate closely with our AI, hardware, and infrastructure teams to integrate frontier AI capabilities into practical, real-world robotics systems and to continually improve robot uptime, performance, and overall intelligence
- This is a rare opportunity to help define the software foundation of industry-leading intelligent robots and contribute to the long-term vision of generalized robotic autonomy at scale
- 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 our systems for robustness, low latency, and operational uptime
Our take
Assembly lines are valuable workflows for eCommerce businesses, but most of these are still handled by humans. The manufacturing process of most products is repetitive and algorithmic, raising questions as to why humans are still required for the job.
Nimble Robotics provides robotic solutions for automated end-to-end manufacturing, including piece-picking, sorting and packing. The services are aimed towards an eCommerce audience, reducing unnecessary staffing costs and increasing efficiency and workflow. To do this, they use robots which are capable of picking apparel, electronics, accessories, convenience items, groceries, beauty products, shoes, and more with 99.9% accuracy at 700+ UPH.
Nimble's robots are customized for every client to ensure the workflow fits their manufacturing needs. The company's network of warehouses is set to provide brands with 1-2 day services for +96% of the U.S. population, meaning Nimble is well set to see substantial growth, especially after its impressive Series A financing. This will enable it to accelerate hiring, product and technology development whilst scaling its product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$106m
SERIES C
Mar 2023
$65m
SERIES B
Total funding: $221m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Nimble provides medical, dental, and vision insurance through several premier plans and options to support you and your family
- Paid Parental Leave
- Take the stress out of commuting with access to fully-paid parking spots
- Gym Reimbursement
- Enjoy unlimited free snacks and drinks in the office and catered meals 5 days a week
- Get a cash bonus for any friend or colleagues that you refer to us that we end up hiring
- 401k
- Once or twice a year, join the entire company for a trip to pause work, relax and have fun as a team in destinations like Tahoe and Vegas
- Be an owner in Nimble through our equity program
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Simon Kalouche
(CEO)AI PhD Drop out from Stanford, to start Nimble. Worked as a Robotics Engineer for NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. Was a Robotics & Mechatronics Engineer for HEBI Robotics.
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