- Robot type
- Warehouse and Logistics
- Location
- San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Aug 16, 2026
Robotics Software Engineer, Nimble Brain
Job description
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;
Job responsibilities
- Design and implement core robotic software for real-time control, manipulation, sensing pipelines, and high-reliability task execution .
- Build tools and workflows for sensor data processing, visualization, validation, and debugging across development and production environments.
- Create automated evaluation, and remote operations .
- Work closely with AI research teams to integrate new frontier AI models into production robot behaviors, ensuring predictable and safe performance.
- Collaborate with hardware engineering on seamless software–hardware integration for new robot platforms and upgrades.
- Contribute hands-on to testing, profiling, and optimizing our systems for robustness, low latency, and operational uptime .
Job requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field.
- 1+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
- Experience integrating with robotics, IoT, or embedded device SDKs.
- Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain complex, high-reliability software systems .
- Hands-on development experience in Rust .
- Familiarity with software best practices including testing, documentation, code reviews, and robust architectural design.
- Excellent communication, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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