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Senior Mechanical Engineer

Nimble Robotics
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/16/2026

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 resourcefulChallenge conventions and overcome obstacles.

Be legendaryBe the very best and do work that inspires.

Be humblePrioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission.

Be dependableTake ownership and deliver with high agency.


About the Role:

Help us advance our robotics moonshot by designing and creating scalable, reliable, innovative new hardware components for Nimble’s robotic systems.


You will play a critical role in working with our world-class cross-functional team to architect and build the world’s most advanced robotic systems for the world’s biggest robotics opportunity!

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Responsibilities
  • Generate new concepts to solve our real world challenges.
  • Create reliable and scalable designs and concepts.
  • Design and implement specifications for life-cycle testings
  • Design components for manufacturing and assembling
  • Provide input on all aspects of product development from brainstorming to final delivery.
  • Welcome new challenges and work independently across disciplines to both investigate issues and identify solutions.
  • Track and assess robot and system failure modes to determine engineering changes to improve uptime and reliability
  • Generate engineering change orders (ECOs) and an associated implementation strategy for ECOs


Qualifications
  • Fast learner, A-player, great work ethic and ambitious
  • BS/MS/Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • 4 years of industry mechanical engineering experience
  • CAD expert (3 yrs in Solidworks preferred)
  • Machine design experience is required for this role
  • Extensive Mechatronics skills, specializing in actuation & sensing
  • Experience with FEA, vibration analysis, risk analysis
  • Rapid prototyping, CNC, sheet metal design, plastics molding
  • Electronics & PCB integration, connectors & wiring harness design 
  • Experience with CAM, fabrication documentation, GD&T, vendor selection, materials sourcing, reliability engineering, structural analysis
  • Design-for-manufacturing, Design for assembly, tooling experience
  • Project management and planning, PLM, Jira & Confluence


Nice To Have
  • Experience with robotics, automation of warehouses, factories or labs
  • Sensors and control systems
  • Cameras, optics, lenses, precision calibration
  • Linux shell, Python scripts and data analysis


Additional Requirements
  • Willing to work extended hours and weekends if needed


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$160,000 - $210,000 a year
Compensation is made up of base salary plus generous equity! The above range is the base salary range.
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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 : $160,000 - $210,000

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