Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and execute system identification experiments for actuators, mechanisms, and full robot subsystems
• Own kinematic calibration workflows including DH parameter identification and tool-center-point calibration
• Build automated calibration and sys-id tooling for production hardware
• Lead design and implementation of robot behaviors and task-level intelligence
• Drive improvements in autonomy quality using data and model validation
• Collaborate with hardware engineering on software-hardware integration
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience in production robotics systems
• Strong foundation in dynamics, controls, and system identification
• Experience characterizing electromechanical systems like motors and articulated arms
• Proficiency in Rust, Python, or C++
• Experience integrating software with sensors, actuators, and embedded systems
• Willingness to support production operations through an on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate-level research in system identification or adaptive control
• Experience with nonlinear system identification (EKF, particle filters)
• Familiarity with physics simulators like MuJoCo, Drake, or Isaac Sim
• Experience with real-time embedded systems or RTOS
• Familiarity with ROS/ROS 2
• Experience building data pipelines for robot telemetry

Benefits

• Unlimited Flexible Time Off
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Commuter benefits including fully-paid parking
• Referral bonuses
• 401k retirement planning
• Generous equity program

About the Company

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce. We are 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.