About Nimble
Nimble is a robotics and AI company building end-to-end autonomous logistics to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We’re developing generalized robot intelligence and building general-purpose logistics robots, the first in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions.
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 as well as 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)! We've recently closed a $106M Series C funding round with a $1 billion valuation and we're continuing to grow our all-star team.
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 a AI Research Engineer to help us advance our robotics moonshot by designing, developing, implementing reinforcement learning algorithms controlling multiple robots for a stealth project.
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
- Design, and implement your own reinforcement learning models towards the end goal of controlling our fleet of robots.
- Welcome new challenges and work independently across disciplines to both investigate issues and identify solutions.
- Design, implement and evaluate models, agents and software prototypes of perceptual processing.
- Report and present research findings and developments including status and results clearly and efficiently verbally and in writing.
- Suggest and engage in team collaborations to meet ambitious research goals.
Qualifications
- MS with research experience or PhD with strong published robotics work.
- Experience with multi agent systems is preferred.
- Strong track record of publishing papers and/or deploying real-world applications
- Experience with system architecture, design and development
- Relevant experience to the position such as post doctoral roles, a proven track record of publications.
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!
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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
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What We Do
Nimble is pioneering intelligent robotic manipulation to reinvent eCommerce fulfillment. Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. We're backed by famed robotics and AI legends like Fei-Fei Li and Sebastian Thrun.
Today, we provide end-to-end robotic picking solutions for goods-to-person picking, put-wall sorting and induction for eCommerce order fulfillment. Our robots integrate into production in 1 day requiring no changes to the WMS/WCS. Our solutions provide a stable labor force, cost savings, reduction in staffing churn, and boosted efficiencies. Using our proprietary human-in-the-loop supervision and AI framework we deliver unmatched reliability in handling any product from day 1.
