Nimble robotics

Robotics Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA Full Time
About Nimble

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We’re developing a general-purpose robot AI and a warehouse generalist superhumanoid robot, the first robot in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions. We recently closed a $106M Series C at a $1B valuation, and we are continuing to grow our world-class team.

Mission: to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.

Vision: invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by industry-generalist superhumanoids to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce.

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 Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles) and Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab).

Join us and leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and global commerce.



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 resourcefulChallenge conventions and overcome obstacles.
Be legendaryBe the very best and do work that inspires.
Be humblePrioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission.
Be dependableTake ownership and deliver with high agency.

Position Overview
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.

Key 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 our systems for robustness, low latency, and operational uptime.

Preferred Qualifications
- 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.