Staff Software Engineer

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 - Infrastructure to join our growing 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

Responsibilities:

- Write and test code for our simulation and data infrastructure systems.

- This role will build data infra for robotics data ingestion, processing for analytics, visualization and MLOps purposes, and multi-robots simulation.

- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.

- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

- Be a mentor for junior engineers.

Qualifications:

- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

- 8+ years of industry experience

- Experience with relevant programming languages such as Rust, Golang, Python or C++ etc.

- Experience simulating 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)

- Knowledge of Computer Networking

Nice to have:

- Experience with Rust programming language

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

$250,000 - $280,000 a year

The listed range is for base salary. There will also be generous equity offered.

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

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