Senior Robotics Software Engineer, System Identification & Modeling
Nimble Robotics operates fully autonomous e-commerce fulfillment centers and a robotic 3PL service powered by general-purpose warehouse robots and cloud logistics software.
Funding history
About Nimble Robotics
Nimble develops AI-powered general-purpose warehouse robots that perform storage, retrieval, picking, packing, sorting, and related fulfillment tasks. It combines the robots with its Cloud Logistics Platform to operate end-to-end autonomous fulfillment centers for e-commerce brands.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will develop mathematical models, parameter-estimation pipelines, calibration tools, and feedback and feedforward controls for autonomous robots. You will run system-identification experiments, improve robot accuracy with data, integrate software with hardware, resolve production issues, and lead technical design decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building production robotics systems
- Knowledge of dynamics, controls, and system identification
- Experience with least-squares regression, parameter estimation, state-space modeling, transfer-function modeling, and controller design
- Experience characterizing electromechanical systems
- Proficiency in Rust, Python, or C++
- Ability to design, implement, and maintain high-reliability software systems
- Experience integrating software with sensors, actuators, and embedded systems
- Knowledge of testing, documentation, code review, and software architecture
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
Responsibilities
- Design and execute system-identification experiments for robot actuators, mechanisms, and subsystems
- Fit dynamic models to derive feedforward and feedback controllers
- Own kinematic calibration workflows for robot arms and mobile bases
- Build automated calibration and system-identification tooling for production hardware
- Implement robot behaviors and task-level intelligence across the robotics stack
- Improve autonomy quality and arm accuracy using data, operational metrics, and model validation
- Collaborate on software-hardware integration and resolve production robotics issues
- Lead technical design reviews and architecture decisions
- Mentor engineers and technicians on reliability, testing, and operational excellence
- Support production operations through an on-call rotation
Benefits
- Unlimited flexible time off
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Fully paid parking
- Referral bonus
- 401k
- Equity program