Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

About Nimble Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce. We’re training robot AGI to power a proprietary generalist supply chain superhumanoid, the first robot in the world capable of performing thousands of tasks across the supply chain. We’ve raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue. We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world’s best engineers and operators. If you are obsessed with your craft, enjoy a high-intensity and fast moving high impact environment, are super high agency in getting hard things done and want to be part of building the world’s most legendary robotics company at the most pivotal moment in history, we want to work with you. We are on a mission to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. We will accomplish this by training robot AGI to invent and build the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by generalist superhumanoids. Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends including Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab), Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), and Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles). Let’s be legendary. Why Join Nimble? At Nimble, we are committed to building legendary products, a legendary team, and a legendary legacy. Join us and become part of an ambitious, humble, and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce. Nimble's Core Values: Be relentlessly resourceful - Challenge conventions and overcome obstacles. Be legendary - Be the very best and do work that inspires. Be humble - Prioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission. Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with high agency. About the Role We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Robotics organization, focused on building the backend and robotics platform software that powers our robot-enabled products. You will design and ship reliable services, APIs, and operational tooling. This role is primarily software and systems engineering working closely with robotics team. Responsibilities Collaborate with robotics, ML, and product teams to define requirements and turn them into well-architected software systems. Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that support production workflows and customer-facing features. Own integrations between our multi-agent systems, cloud infrastructures, internal tooling, and robot-facing interfaces. Build orchestration and state management services that coordinate long-running operational processes. Improve reliability and scalability through robust testing, observability, incident response, and performance tuning. Drive software engineering best practices across the team by producing high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code and raising the bar in reviews. Mentor other engineers and contribute to improving team processes and technical standards. Participate in and often lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning sessions. Join an on-call rotation and help diagnose and resolve production issues. Qualifications Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience. At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience. Strong self learning and improvement mindset. Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, Python, C++. Strong fundamentals in backend se ... (truncated, view full listing at source)