San Francisco, United States
Software Engineer III - Cloud
Nimble Robotics · San Francisco · United States
Posted: 10/13/2026 · Last checked: 10/14/2026
Job description
Quoted in full from Nimble Robotics's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.
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 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; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles).
Let’s be legendary.
Position Duties:
- Design and develop automation workflows, write unit/integration/system tests and conducting reviews to make sure your work is rigorously designed, elegantly coded and effectively tuned for performance and quality.
- Push and maintain code in production.
- Be available for production support.
- Measure and debug performance bottlenecks for a suite of products.
- Be able to ship a feature end to end: frontend, backend, CI, infrastructure.
- Be a mentor for junior engineers.
Position Requirements:
- Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or a related field and one (1) year of experience as a Software Engineer, R&D Engineer, or related
position, plus demonstrated experience in or knowledge of the following:- Building full stack cloud applications (both frontend and backend).
- REST, SQL, CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, message brokering and Docker.
- Writing unit and integration tests.
- Technical documentation (architecture diagrams + sequence
diagramming). - Cloud security practices.
Compensation
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