Sustainment Engineer

About Nimble

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.

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 AI is hiring a Sustainment Engineer to keep our warehouse robot fleet running and make it more reliable over time. You will find out why robots fail in the field, design the fixes, and see them through to deployment. This is not a desk job - you will be expected to dedicate significant time working alongside maintenance technicians in a hands-on environment to experience first hand where the failures lie and where improvements can be made.

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

The pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $100,000 and $130,000/year. Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, 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

Unlimited Flexible 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