Staff Software Engineer - Robotics

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.

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).

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

Be relentlessly resourceful - Challenge conventions and overcome obstacles.

Be legendary - Be the very best and do work that inspires.

Be humble - Prioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission.

Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with high agency.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Robotics team. You will help build the application systems, integrations, and orchestration that enable robots to operate reliably in production environments. This role is about creating the software that allows robots to perform useful tasks at scale, from coordinating behaviors to integrating with enterprise systems, working closely with robotics engineers, ML engineers, multi-robot coordination teams and product teams.

- Own and drive the architecture of critical application systems, integrations, and orchestration frameworks that power production robotics

- Identify, propose, and launch high-impact technical initiatives that improve system reliability, scalability, or developer efficiency

- Proactively uncover gaps or opportunities in system performance, architecture, or workflows, and drive solutions from concept to production

- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and long-term technical roadmaps for the robotics application stack

- Drive engineering best practices across the team by producing high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code

- Work cross-functionally with robotics engineers, ML engineers, multi-robot coordination teams, infrastructure teams, and product teams to set technical direction and align long-term priorities

- Mentor and develop engineers across the organization; provide technical leadership through design reviews and hands-on guidance

- Triage product or robotics system issues to ensure reliability of production robotics systems; Serve as an escalation point during on-call rotations, guiding diagnosis and recovery during critical system incidents

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

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience

- Strong self learning and improvement mindset

- Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, Python, C++

- Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, backend services, distributed systems, and API design

- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and influence technical direction across organizations.

- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

- Experience with CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, messaging systems

- Willingness to support production operations through an on-call rotation

- Experience with integrating robotics platforms, hardware devices, embedded systems, or automation systems

- Exposure to automation environments such as warehousing, manufacturing, or logistics