Senior Staff Software Engineer Infrastructure ML

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 build and optimize ML training and inference systems for warehouse robotics. You will improve GPU utilization, reproducibility, distributed training, data ingestion, and low-latency inference. You will develop CUDA kernels, review code, document systems, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

  • Infrastructure, distributed systems, ML systems, or robotics experience
  • Rust, Go, Python, or C++
  • PyTorch or JAX
  • Distributed system
  • Systems programming
  • Memory management
  • Performance optimization
  • Kubernetes
  • Resource scheduling
  • Containerized deployment
  • GPU memory
  • Networking
  • Filesystem
  • Multi-GPU operation

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain ML training infrastructure
  • Build low-latency inference pipelines for production robotics workloads
  • Develop, tune, and optimize CUDA kernels
  • Design scalable training-platform systems, data ingestion, dataset sharding, and sampling
  • Lead design reviews and evaluate technical tradeoffs
  • Review code for correctness, testability, performance, and maintainability
  • Create and maintain technical documentation and educational materials
  • Mentor junior engineers

Benefits

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