Senior Software Engineer, Robotics

Nimble is a robotics and AI company inventing and scaling autonomous logistics with intelligent robots to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce.
We’re developing generalized robot intelligence and building general-purpose mobile manipulator robots, the first in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions.
Our long-term vision is to invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – using next-gen intelligent robotics to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce.
We were founded from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. We’re backed by the world’s most prestigious investors and Nimble’s Board of Directors includes AI and robotics legends like Marc Raibert (Founder of Boston Dynamics), Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google, Director of Stanford’s AI lab), and Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Google X, Waymo, Kitty Hawk, and Udacity).
Join us to leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and logistics
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.
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.
Architect software solutions – Craft highly performant, maintainable, scalable and fault tolerant robotics software using Rust programming language. 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. Develop multi‑robot simulation and 3D visualization software to predict system behavior ahead of new customer launch and warehouse volume ramp up.
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.
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. Contribute to documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback. 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 and influence the overall technical roadmap for the team.
Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent 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).

Experience with data engineering technologies such as Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Parquet, Arrow or similar.

Compensation is made up of base salary plus generous equity.
Nimble Closes $106 Million Series C Funding Round, Scales Fully Autonomous Fulfillment with FedEx. FedEx Announces Expansion of FedEx Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance.
Nimble Robotics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. 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.
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.
~ Referral Bonus – Get a cash bonus for any friend or colleague 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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