Senior Software Engineer Robotics Platform

Nimble Robotics operates fully autonomous e-commerce fulfillment centers and a robotic 3PL service powered by general-purpose warehouse robots and cloud logistics software.

San Francisco, United States
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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About the Role

You will design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, integrations, and operational tooling for robot-enabled products. You will build orchestration and state-management services, improve reliability through testing and observability, participate in on-call support, and lead technical reviews.

Requirements

  • Professional software engineering experience
  • Rust, Python, or C++
  • Backend service
  • Distributed system
  • Data modeling
  • API design
  • Scalable system
  • Technical project leadership
  • Communication
  • Cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with robotics, ML, and product teams to define software requirements
  • Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs
  • Own integrations between multi-agent systems, cloud infrastructure, tooling, and robot-facing interfaces
  • Build orchestration and state-management services for long-running processes
  • Improve reliability and scalability through testing, observability, incident response, and performance tuning
  • Produce high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code
  • Mentor engineers and improve team processes and technical standards
  • Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning sessions
  • Join an on-call rotation and resolve production issues

Benefits

  • Unlimited flexible time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Commuter benefits with fully paid parking
  • 401k
  • Equity