Nimble Robotics
Senior Robotics Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Senior
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About the role
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Robotics 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 robotics and autonomy-building robust, production-grade software that scales as we deploy more robots into high-throughput warehouse operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and implementation of robot behaviors and task-level intelligence across the full robotics stack, integrating perception, planning and control into reliable end-to-end execution.
- Design and implement task orchestration and robot behaviors across nominal and edge-case scenarios, ensuring high task success rate and robust recovery.
- Drive measurable improvements in autonomy quality, using data and operational metrics to iterate on task success rate, recovery behavior, and system reliability.
- Collaborate with hardware engineering on seamless software-hardware integration for new robot platforms and upgrades.
- Participate and lead technical design reviews and drive architecture decisions for core subsystems and features.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, Python, C++
- Experience integrating software with sensors, actuators and embedded systems.
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building production robotics systems.
- Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain complex, high-reliability software systems.
- Familiarity with software best practices including testing, documentation, code reviews, and robust architectural design.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams
- Willingness to support production operations through an on-call rotation.
Nice to have
- Exposure to automation environments such as warehousing, manufacturing, or logistics
- Experience with real-time embedded system development, with RTOS or bare-metal firmware
- Experience with safety-critical systems
- What else to know
- This role is an in-office, 5 days a week role in San Francisco, CA.
- $190,000 - $250,000 a year
- 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.
Compensation
- We've raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue.
Company info
- We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world's best engineers and operators.
- We are on a mission to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.
This listing is sourced directly from Nimble Robotics's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.