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Nimble · 1 month ago

Staff Robotics Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$230K/yr - $270K/yr

8+ years exp

Nimble Robotics is a frontier robotics and AI company focused on building autonomous logistics solutions. They are seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer to develop core software for their next-generation autonomous robots, ensuring exceptional reliability and performance in production environments.

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

Robotics software developmentRust programmingProduction systems engineeringReal-time control systemsSensor data processingAPI developmentSoftware best practicesCross-functional collaborationCommunication

Required

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

Benefits

Paid Time Off

Health Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Commuter Benefits

Referral Bonus

401k

Equity

Company

Nimble

Nimble is building autonomous logistics powered by generalist superhumanoid robots.

Founded in 2019

San Francisco, CA, US

51-200 employees

https://nimble.ai

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