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Senior Robotics Firmware Engineer

Nimble Robotics · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Nimble Robotics

Offer free 2-day or less delivery using Nimble — the robotic 3PL. Backed by Accel.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Robotics Firmware Engineer to build the core firmware powering our next-generation autonomous robots. In this role, you will develop the systems that allow our robots to operate with exceptional reliability, precision, and efficiency in real production environments. You will work across robot control, sensing and runtime execution — building robust, production-grade firmware that scales as we deploy more robots into high-throughput warehouse operations.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor, Master, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field
  • Strong experience with embedded firmware domains, e.g. real-time control, motor or actuator drive, sensor interfacing, and communication protocols
  • 4+ years of firmware or embedded systems engineering experience building production robotics or automation systems
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, C, C++
  • Experience developing on microcontrollers with real-time constraints, whether RTOS-based or bare-metal
  • Experience integrating firmware with sensors, actuators, and communication buses such as CAN, SPI, I²C, and UART
More about this role

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...

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