Talent.com
No longer accepting applications
AI Robotics Research Engineer

AI Robotics Research Engineer

Nimble RoboticsSan Francisco, CA, United States
6 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Overview

About Nimble

Nimble is a robotics and AI company inventing and scaling autonomous logistics with intelligent robots to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We’re developing generalized robot intelligence and building general-purpose mobile manipulator robots, the first in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions. We've recently closed a $106M Series C funding round at a $1 billion valuation and we're continuing to grow our all-star team. Our mission is to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. Our long-term vision is to invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – using next-gen intelligent robotics to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce. We were founded from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. We’re backed by the world’s most prestigious investors and Nimble’s Board of Directors includes AI and robotics legends like Marc Raibert (Founder of Boston Dynamics), Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google, Director of Stanford’s AI lab), and Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Google X, Waymo, Kitty Hawk, and Udacity). Join us to leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and logistics. Why Join Nimble?

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 the status quo. Make the impossible, possible. Do whatever it takes.
  • Be legendary - Be the best at whatever it is that you do. Leave your mark. Motivate and inspire others.
  • Be humble - Leave your ego behind. Have a growth mindset. Learn and improve yourself every day.
  • Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver. Be loyal to your team and Nimble's mission.

The Role

Nimble is looking for an AI Research Engineer 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

  • Ph.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
  • $140,000 - $280,000 a year

    Culture

    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.

    Press :

    Nimble Closes $106 Million Series C Funding Round, Scales Fully Autonomous Fulfillment with FedEx

    FedEx Announces Expansion of FedEx Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance

    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
  • #J-18808-Ljbffr

    Create a job alert for this search

    Research Engineer Ai • San Francisco, CA, United States

    Related jobs
    • Promoted
    AI Engineer, Evaluation and Reliability

    AI Engineer, Evaluation and Reliability

    Mice GroupsRedwood City, CA, US
    Permanent
    Senior Engineer, AI Evaluation and Reliability / Contract-to-Hire or Direct Hire / Redwood City / Hybrid, onsite 3 days per week / This position pays $70-80 / hr. W2 for Contract, $140-190K annually u...Show moreLast updated: 2 days ago
    • Promoted
    Robotics and AI Engineering

    Robotics and AI Engineering

    Infinite MagicSan Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    Autonomous Robotics Engineering.San Francisco Bay Area, Columbus Ohio, or flexible.Join us as we build a future where carbon emissions are 60% lower, landfill waste is cut by 70-90%, and local econ...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    Advanced Robotics Controls Engineer, Frontier AI & Robotics

    Advanced Robotics Controls Engineer, Frontier AI & Robotics

    AmazonSan Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    We are seeking a highly skilled Mechatronics or Controls Engineer with deep expertise in actuation systems, low-level motor control, sensor integration and system characterization to help design, p...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    Machine Learning Research Engineer - Robotics

    Machine Learning Research Engineer - Robotics

    Scale AI, Inc.San Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    Scale's Robotics business unit is dedicated to solving the data bottleneck in Physical AI.This position will be a key contributor in conducting applied research in Robotics and developing ML pipeli...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    Founding Research Engineer, AI

    Founding Research Engineer, AI

    AdyenSan Francisco, California, United States
    Full-time
    Adyen is the financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, providing payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for global customers like Meta, Uber, and H&M.At A...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    AI Engineer & Researcher - Search

    AI Engineer & Researcher - Search

    XaiPalo Alto, California, United States
    Full-time
    AI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excelle...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    Robotics Engineer

    Robotics Engineer

    DeepAware AI (YC S25)San Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    DeepAware AI (YC S25) is building secure, efficient, and autonomous infrastructure for the AI era.Your work will bridge the gap between physical robotics and our AI-powered Data Center Infrastructu...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    AI Engineer & Researcher - AI Experts

    AI Engineer & Researcher - AI Experts

    XaiPalo Alto, California, United States
    Full-time
    AI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excelle...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    AI Engineer & Researcher - Product Analytics & Experimentation Design

    AI Engineer & Researcher - Product Analytics & Experimentation Design

    XaiPalo Alto, California, United States
    Full-time
    AI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excelle...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    • New!
    Robotics ML Research Engineer — Shape Physical AI

    Robotics ML Research Engineer — Shape Physical AI

    ScaleSan Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    A leading AI technology company in San Francisco seeks an experienced Machine Learning Research Engineer to innovate in Robotics. The role involves developing ML pipelines and conducting applied res...Show moreLast updated: 7 hours ago
    • Promoted
    Machine Learning Research Engineer - Robotics

    Machine Learning Research Engineer - Robotics

    Scale AiSan Francisco, California, United States
    Full-time
    Scale’s Robotics business unit is dedicated to solving the data bottleneck in Physical AI.This position will be a key contributor in conducting applied research in Robotics and developing ML pipeli...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    Research scientist (Robotics, AI)

    Research scientist (Robotics, AI)

    IntelliProSanta Clara, CA, US
    Full-time +1
    Research scientist (Robotics, AI).Santa Clara, California, United States.We are an early-stage robotics startup working on building multi-purpose mobile robots that can do complex manipulation task...Show moreLast updated: 3 days ago
    • Promoted
    AI Engineer & Researcher - Agents

    AI Engineer & Researcher - Agents

    XaiPalo Alto, California, United States
    Full-time
    AI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excelle...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    Software Engineer - Robotics & Autonomous Systems

    Software Engineer - Robotics & Autonomous Systems

    Scale AI, Inc.San Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    Software Engineer - Robotics & Autonomous Systems.Scale's Robotics business unit is dedicated to solving the data bottleneck in Physical AI across Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and Computer Vision...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    AI Robotics Research Engineer

    AI Robotics Research Engineer

    NimbleSan Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    Nimble is a robotics and AI company inventing and scaling autonomous logistics with intelligent robots to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We’re developing generalized robot intelli...Show moreLast updated: 4 days ago
    • Promoted
    Lead Robotics AI Engineer

    Lead Robotics AI Engineer

    Samson RoseSan Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    Samson Rose has partnered with a pioneering robotics startup focused on climate-impact innovation to find a Lead Robotics AI Engineer. This role is an incredible opportunity to join an early, missio...Show moreLast updated: 30+ days ago
    • Promoted
    Lead Robotics AI Engineer

    Lead Robotics AI Engineer

    SamsonroseSan Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    Samson Rose has partnered with a pioneering robotics startup focused on climate-impact innovation to find a Lead Robotics AI Engineer. This role is an incredible opportunity to join an early, missio...Show moreLast updated: 6 days ago
    • Promoted
    Research Engineer Advanced Robotics

    Research Engineer Advanced Robotics

    KiwibotSan Francisco, CA, United States
    Full-time
    AI-powered robots that help businesses automate processes, improve productivity, and free up human time for what truly matters. We believe the future will be powered by clean, efficient, and intelli...Show moreLast updated: 2 days ago