Nimble Robotics
Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform
San Francisco, CA · Senior
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Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $194,355 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Engineers, All Other" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- This role is primarily software and systems engineering working closely with robotics team.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with robotics, ML, and product teams to define requirements and turn them into well-architected software systems.
- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that support production workflows and customer-facing features.
- Own integrations between our multi-agent systems, cloud infrastructures, internal tooling, and robot-facing interfaces.
- Build orchestration and state management services that coordinate long-running operational processes.
- Drive software engineering best practices across the team by producing high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code and raising the bar in reviews.
- Participate in and often lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning sessions.
- Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, Python, C++.
- Demonstrated experience designing scalable systems and leading complex technical projects.
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong self learning and improvement mindset.
- Strong fundamentals in backend services, distributed systems, data modeling, and API design.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience observability stack like OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and production.
- Exposure to automation environments such as warehousing, manufacturing, or logistics.
- What else to know
- $180,000 - $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.
- We're ambitious, we're gritty, we're humble and we're relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals.
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.
- 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.
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Robotics organization, focused on building the backend and robotics platform software that powers our robot-enabled products.
This listing is sourced directly from Nimble Robotics's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.