Senior Software Engineer - Nimble

About Nimble

Nimble is a robotics and AI company building end-to-end autonomous logistics to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We’re developing generalized robot intelligence and building general-purpose logistics robots, the first in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions.

Our mission is to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.

Our long-term vision is to invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – using next-gen intelligent robotics to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce.

We were founded from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. We’re backed by the World’s most prestigious investors as well as AI and robotics legends like Marc Raibert (Founder of Boston Dynamics), Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google, Director of Stanford’s AI lab), and Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Google X, Waymo, Kitty Hawk, and Udacity)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3XPfrlkO7s

Nimble's Core Values:

1. Be relentlessly resourceful - Find a way to make the impossible, possible. Do whatever it takes.
2. Be legendary - Be the best at whatever it is that you do. Leave your mark. Motivate and inspire others.
3. Be humble - Leave your ego behind. Have a growth mindset. Learn and improve yourself every day.
4. Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver. Be loyal to your team and Nimble's mission.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team. You will play a critical role in working with our world-class cross-functional team to help develop and build the world’s most advanced robotic systems for the world’s biggest robotics opportunity!

Responsibilities:

• Write and test code for our simulation and data infrastructure systems.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Be a mentor for junior engineers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of industry experience
• Experience with relevant programming languages such as Rust, Golang, Python or C++ etc.
• Experience simulating Autonomous systems, Robotics, or other highly complex systems
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
• Good understanding of database systems such as Postgres, Scylladb.
• Good understanding of writing unit and integration tests
• Good understanding with lower-level Operating Systems (Linux)
• Knowledge of Computer Networking

Nice to have:

• Experience with Rust programming language
• Experience with data engineering technologies such as Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Parquet, Arrow or similar.

Culture:

We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day. We’re not in this to do what’s easy or to be mediocre. We want to create something legendary and leave our mark on the world. We’re ambitious, we’re gritty, we’re humble and we’re relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals. If this sounds like you then you might be a great fit!

Nimble's Benefits

• Flexible PTO - Enjoy the time you need to travel, rejuvenate, and connect with friends and family.
• Health Insurance - Nimble provides medical, dental, and vision insurance through several premier plans and options to support you and your family.
• Paid Parental Leave - Enjoy paid bonding time following a birth.
• Commuter Benefits - Take the stress out of commuting with access to fully-paid parking spots.
• Referral Bonus - Get a cash bonus for any friend or colleagues that you refer to us that we end up hiring.
• 401k - Contribute towards a 401k for retirement planning.
• Equity - Be an owner in Nimble through our equity program.