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About Nimble

Nimble is a robotics and AI company inventing and scaling autonomous logistics with intelligent robots to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We're developing generalized robot intelligence and building general‑purpose mobile manipulator robots, the first in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions. We recently closed a $106M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation and are expanding our all‑star team.

Our mission is to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. Our long‑term vision is to invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – using next‑gen intelligent robotics to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce.

Founded from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, Nimble is backed by world‑class investors. Our Board includes AI and robotics legends such as Marc Raibert (Founder of Boston Dynamics), Fei‑Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google, Director of Stanford's AI lab), and Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Google X, Waymo, Kitty Hawk, and Udacity).

Join us to leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and logistics!

Link: Introducing Nimble – Intelligent Fulfillment Robots at Scale

Why Join Nimble?

At Nimble, we build legendary products, a legendary team, and a legendary legacy. Our culture is ambitious, humble, and resourceful, and your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce.

Nimble's Core Values:

• Be relentlessly resourceful – Challenge the status quo. Make the impossible possible. Do whatever it takes.
• Be legendary – Be the best at whatever you do. Leave your mark. Motivate and inspire others.
• Be humble – Leave your ego behind. Have a growth mindset. Learn and improve every day.
• Be dependable – Take ownership and deliver. Be loyal to your team and Nimble's mission.

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer – Infrastructure to join our growing team. You will play a critical role in working with our world‑class cross‑functional team to help develop and build the world's most advanced robotic systems for the world's biggest robotics opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Write and test code for our simulation and data infrastructure systems.
• Create data infrastructure for robotics data ingestion, processing for analytics, visualization, and MLOps purposes, and multi‑robot simulation.
• Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide among available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (style guidelines, code quality, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt it based on product or program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve them by analyzing root causes and impacts on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Mentor junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Experience with relevant programming languages such as Rust, Golang, Python, or C++.
• Experience simulating autonomous systems, robotics, or other highly complex systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong understanding of database systems such as Postgres and ScyllaDB.
• Strong understanding of writing unit and integration tests.
• Strong understanding of lower‑level operating systems (Linux).
• Knowledge of computer networking.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust programming language.
• Experience with data engineering technologies such as Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Parquet, Arrow, or similar.

Salary $250,000 – $280,000 a year (base). We also offer generous equity.

Culture

We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day. We're ambitious, gritty, humble, and relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals. If this sounds like you, you might be a great fit!

Press

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

Nimble Robotics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state, federal or local laws.

Our Benefits

• Paid Time Off – Enjoy the time you need to travel, rejuvenate, and connect with friends and family.
• Health Insurance – Medical, dental, and vision insurance through several premier plans and options.
• Paid Parental Leave – Enjoy paid bonding time following a birth.
• Commuter Benefits – Take the stress out of commuting with access to fully‑paid parking spots.
• Referral Bonus – Get a cash bonus for any friend or colleague that you refer to us that we end up hiring.
• 401k – Contribute toward a 401k for retirement planning.
• Equity – Be an owner in Nimble through our equity program.