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AI Robotics Research Scientist

Nimble
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/20/2025 CLOSED ON 1/5/2026

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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.

The Role

Nimble is looking for an AI Robotics Research Scientist to help us advance our robotics moonshot by designing, developing, training, and implementing robotic foundation models, Vision-Language-Action Models, general-purpose robotic AI models, and reinforcement learning algorithms controlling multi-agent robot fleets.

You will play a critical role in working with our all-star cross-functional team to build models with immediate applications for the world’s biggest robotics opportunity.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and train diffusion policies, VLMs, multi-agent deep RL policies and more
  • Develop data collection pipelines
  • Design data annotation and labeling
  • Support implementation of models into production systems


Qualifications

  • P.h.D in Robotics or Computer Science
  • Experience training deep learning models for robotic manipulation or mobility
  • Experience working with real robotic hardware
  • Experience training models in simulation and developing simulation environments
  • Experience collecting custom datasets
  • Experience training on open-source datasets
  • Strong track record of publishing papers and/or deploying real-world applications
  • Experience with system architecture, design and development


Additional Requirements

  • Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
  • Must be able to work in San Francisco


$180,000 - $250,000 a year

The above range is the salary range. This position will also receive generous equity for this position.

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 : $180,000 - $250,000

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