Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce. We’re training robot AGI to power a proprietary generalist supply chain superhumanoid, the first robot in the world capable of performing thousands of tasks across the supply chain. We’ve raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue. We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world’s best engineers and operators. If you are obsessed with your craft, enjoy a high-intensity and fast moving high impact environment, are super high agency in getting hard things done and want to be part of building the world’s most legendary robotics company at the most pivotal moment in history, we want to work with you.
We are on a mission to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. We will accomplish this by training robot AGI to invent and build the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by generalist superhumanoids.
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 Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab), Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), and Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles).
Let’s be legendary.
This is a highly cross-functional role. This role requires working across Hardware, Software, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Supply Chain teams to implement these improvements with the goal of improving robot reliability and reducing cost.
This role suits an engineer who is self-motivated, driven by a challenge, enjoys hands-on troubleshooting, owns problems end to end, and works well without close supervision.
Responsibilities
- Investigate robot failures. Lead root cause analysis on field failures using fleet data, incident reports, failed-part teardowns, and hardware diagnostics. Turn findings into clear corrective actions that improve fleet uptime.
- Own reliability fixes end to end. Design mechanical fixes and design changes, build and test prototypes, validate them, and drive them through release, production cut-in, and field retrofit.
- Support Manufacturing and Maintenance. Respond to support requests from MFG and field maintenance teams, including build issues, nonconforming parts, repair procedures, and troubleshooting escalations.
- Track and prioritize failure modes. Monitor failure trends across the fleet, identify the top drivers of downtime, and prioritize work by impact.
- Document and share what you learn. Write failure analysis reports, update drawings and BOMs, and create or improve maintenance and repair procedures.
- Partner across teams. Work with design engineering, quality, supply chain, and suppliers to close out issues and prevent repeat failures in current and future robot designs.
- Travel to customer sites. Visit warehouses occasionally to investigate failures firsthand, support fix rollouts, and train on-site maintenance teams.
Qualifications
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent hands-on engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience in mechanical design, reliability, sustaining, or field engineering for electromechanical systems
- Proficiency in 3D CAD (SolidWorks, Onshape, or similar) and creating production drawings with GD&T
- Hands-on skill with tools, disassembly, and test setups; comfortable working directly on robots and hardware
- Working knowledge of mechanisms such as drivetrains, bearings, gearboxes, fasteners, and structural components
- Basic understanding of electrical systems, sensors, and motors to troubleshoot failure modes related to those systems
- Ability to analyze data (Excel, SQL, Python, or similar) to spot failure trends
- Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, technicians, and non-technical stakeholders
- Willingness to travel to warehouse sites, up to about 15% of the time
Additional Requirements
- Experience with industrial robots, ASRS, warehouse automation, or other fielded robotic fleets
- Background in reliability engineering: FMEA, Weibull analysis, MTBF tracking, accelerated life testing
- Experience managing engineering change orders (ECOs) and implementing changes in production and in the field
- Familiarity with DFM/DFA and working with suppliers
- Experience with a variety of manufacturing methods such as plastic and sheet metal design, CNC, 3D printing
- Experience with incident tracking and PLM tools such as Arena
Compensation