What are the responsibilities and job description for the Robotics Diagnostics Engineer position at Nimble Robotics?
About Nimble
Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We’re developing a general-purpose robot AI and a warehouse generalist superhumanoid robot, the first robot in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions. We recently closed a $106M Series C at a $1B valuation, and we are continuing to grow our world-class team.
Mission: to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.
Vision: invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by industry-generalist superhumanoids to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce.
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 Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles) and Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab).
Join us and leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and global commerce.
Link: Nimble Closes $106 Million Series C Funding Round, Scales Fully Autonomous Fulfillment with FedEx
Link: FedEx Announces Expansion of FedEx Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance
Why Join Nimble?
At Nimble, we are committed to building legendary products, a legendary team, and a legendary legacy. Join us and become part of an ambitious, humble, and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce.
Nimble's Core Values:
Be relentlessly resourceful - Challenge conventions and overcome obstacles.
Be legendary - Be the very best and do work that inspires.
Be humble - Prioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission.
Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with high agency.
About the Role
You will own the development and architecture of our next-generation robotics diagnostic system, which is crucial for improving the reliability and maintainability of the robotic fleet. This system must proactively detect and surface anomalies across the entire robot stack—from low-level firmware glitches to complex hardware failures—either automatically during operation or upon manual trigger. You will be the architect of the diagnostic data structure, translating complex sensor readings and error logs into actionable, easy-to-read health reports that accelerate root cause analysis for engineering, manufacturing, and support teams. This role requires tight collaboration with our Embedded Software and Infrastructure teams, and the Operations team to build a robust, scalable data pipeline.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain the on-robot diagnostic framework, enabling both autonomous background checks and on-demand manual diagnostic scans.
- Define the diagnostic data schema, ensuring efficient, standardized, and human-readable reporting of fault codes, event logs, and status checks. This data structure must be scalable and optimized for use by both on-robot systems and cloud-based analytics tools.
- Work closely with embedded software and hardware teams to develop sophisticated diagnostic routines that surface hardware issues, abnormal sensor behavior (e.g., drift, noise, and communication failures), motor anomalies, and transient firmware glitches.
- Collaborate with the Infrastructure team to architect and build the data pipeline responsible for reliably collecting, storing (e.g., S3 or data lake), and processing high volumes of diagnostic data from the robot fleet.
- Ensure diagnostics generate clear, prioritized, and contextualized reports that summarize the state of the robot, enabling engineers to quickly understand the root cause of an abnormality without extensive log diving.
Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical discipline.
- 3 years of professional experience in developing diagnostics, monitoring, or telemetry systems for complex electro-mechanical devices, robotics, or embedded systems.
- Proficiency in software development (e.g., C , Python) with specific experience in writing testable, robust code for embedded environments or robotics middleware.
- Experience with data structuring, schema design, and working with data ingestion pipelines (e.g., utilizing message queues, time-series databases, or cloud data storage).
- Deep understanding of common robotics hardware and firmware failure modes, including motor control systems, sensor interfaces (e.g., CAN, I2C, Serial, USB), and power management systems.
- Technical triaging skills, familiarity with Ishikawa diagram are big plus.
- Familiarity with interpreting hardware schematics and leveraging low-level system logs to identify failure points.
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 Robotics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state, federal or local laws.
Nimble's Benefits
Paid Time Off
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
Salary : $145,000 - $190,000