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.
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.
Position Overview
Nimble is looking for a Staff 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 backend services and APIs that support advanced robotics workflows, including telemetry, monitoring, data capture, 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.
- 8+ 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.