Senior Simulation Product Engineer
nimble-robotics
Product
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 180k-225k / year + Equity
Posted on Oct 16, 2025
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
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.
Role Summary
We are seeking a senior, technically savvy Simulation Product Engineer to bridge the gap between our operational needs and the simulation platform. This is a critical technical role that uses the robotic fleet simulator as a tool for release assurance, issue triage, and strategic operational guidance.
Key Responsibilities
- Requirement Management: Serve as the primary liaison to Operations and System Integration teams, understanding and curating complex operational and integration needs and translating them into clear, actionable robot fleet simulator requirements.
- Development Partnership: Collaborate with the Simulator Development Engineer to define and document the simulator development requirement document.
- Release Assurance & Quality Gate: Analyze simulator results and validate outputs from nightly simulation runs to confidently approve or block fleet control and robot software releases.
- Issue Resolution & Triage: Utilize the simulator as the primary tool to triage and root-cause field issues reported from the Warehouse, driving necessary fleet SW, integration, and Robot SW changes based on analysis and findings.
- Operational Alignment & Guidance: Work in lockstep with the operations team to minimize the discrepancy (sim-to-real gap) between simulation results and actual warehouse operations, ensuring the simulator is a reliable forecasting tool.
- Strategic Volume Goal: Guide and support operations in configuration and setup changes for the warehouse to achieve and sustain the package handling volume goal.
Qualifications
- Bachelors or masters in computer science or electrical engineering, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in system validation, operations research, industrial engineering, or complex system modeling/simulation, preferably in robotics or automation.
- Proven ability to define and manage complex system requirements, analyze large datasets, and use simulation outputs to drive critical business decisions.
- Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience working directly with engineering, operations, and product teams.
- A strong, data-driven problem-solver with a proven track record of using analysis to influence high-stakes operational and engineering changes.
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
180000 - 225000 USD a year
The above range is the base salary range. This position will also provide generous equity.