Senior Robotics Software Engineer
Nimble Robotics6 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement robot behaviors and task-level intelligence across the robotics stack, integrating perception, planning, and control.
- Build task orchestration and robot behaviors for nominal and edge-case scenarios with robust recovery.
- Improve autonomy quality using operational data and metrics related to task success, recovery behavior, and reliability.
- Collaborate with hardware engineering on software-hardware integration for new robot platforms and upgrades.
- Lead technical design reviews and drive architecture decisions for core subsystems and features.
- Mentor cross-functional engineers and technicians while improving reliability, testing, and operational excellence.
- Triage and help resolve issues affecting production robotics system reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in computer science, robotics, or a related engineering field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building production robotics systems.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Rust, Python, or C++.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex, high-reliability software systems.
- Experience integrating software with sensors, actuators, and embedded systems.
- Familiarity with testing, documentation, code reviews, and robust architectural design.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
- Willingness to support production operations through an on-call rotation.
- Exposure to warehousing, manufacturing, or logistics automation environments is preferred.
- Experience with real-time embedded systems, RTOS, or bare-metal firmware is preferred.
- Experience with safety-critical systems is preferred.
Benefits
- In-office role five days per week in San Francisco, California.
- Unlimited flexible time off.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fully paid parking through commuter benefits.
- Referral bonus.
- 401(k) contributions.
- Equity program.
About Nimble Robotics
Nimble Robotics builds AI-driven warehouse robotics and operates a robotic third-party logistics (3PL) service for e-commerce and omnichannel fulfillment. Its platform includes general-purpose robots for storage, picking, packing, and sorting, offered as autonomous fulfillment services and systems for retailers and shippers. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and has an alliance with FedEx to scale autonomous fulfillment within FedEx Fulfillment.