Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Robotics Software Engineer role is an in-office position in San Francisco, CA, with a stated annual salary range of $190,000–$250,000, plus equity. Nimble Robotics is developing autonomous supply-chain robotics for warehouse operations. The engineer builds production-grade software that enables autonomous robots to perform reliably and efficiently. The role integrates perception, planning, and control into robot behaviors, improves task success and recovery using operational data, and works with AI, hardware, and infrastructure teams to scale robot deployments.

What you'll do

• Design and implement robot behaviors and task-level intelligence
• integrate perception, planning, and control
• build task orchestration and recovery for nominal and edge cases
• improve autonomy quality and reliability using operational metrics
• integrate software with new robot platforms and upgrades
• lead design reviews and architecture decisions
• mentor engineers and technicians
• triage production robotics issues
• support production operations through an on-call rotation.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior robotics software engineer

robotics

autonomy

robot behaviors

task orchestration

perception

planning and control

rust

python

c++

on-call rotation

san francisco ca

nimble robotics

$190k–$250k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity
• unlimited flexible time off
• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• paid parental leave
• commuter benefits including fully paid parking spots
• referral bonus
• 401(k).

Why this role

The role supports production robotics in high-throughput warehouse operations and includes an on-call rotation.

About the employer

Nimble Robotics is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.