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title: 'Backend Engineer at Nidus Technologies'
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# Backend Engineer at Nidus Technologies

- **Company:** Nidus Technologies
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $180k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nidus-technologies/49c4c8c2-9b2e-413e-a9a9-daf9a61e731e

## Job description

## About Us

Nidus is building autonomous manufacturing systems powered by AI and robotics. U.S. manufacturing faces a structural challenge: a shrinking skilled workforce, underutilized equipment, and supply chains that can't keep pace with demand. We believe the answer isn't more people — it's smarter systems. We're building the intelligence layer that lets machines run autonomously, so manufacturers can scale production without scaling headcount. Our team comes from the intersection of defense technology and AI. We've built and shipped products to DoD customers, and we bring deep experience across ML, robotics, product development, and defense We're a small, in-person team in New York City working on hard problems that matter. If you want to build the future of American manufacturing, we'd love to hear from you.

## Role Overview

We are seeking a Staff ML Backend Engineer to join our team and build the foundational infrastructure that powers our machine learning pipelines for advanced robotics systems. This role will focus on creating robust, scalable backend systems that enable our ML and robotics teams to train, deploy, and monitor models in production manufacturing environments. You'll be working at the intersection of distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and robotics sensor data collection

## Key Responsibilities

- Owning the data collection/storage pipeline for our robotics sensor data
- Making technical decisions around efficient storage and processing of that sensor data
- Building software for analytics, monitoring, and visualization of the data, and making key decisions on when we should build vs buy
- Function as a research engineer for our ML team - building out tooling and infra as needed to keep their iteration cycles fast

Required Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience in backend engineering, with demonstrated expertise in building scalable distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in Python, Rust, or C++
- Experience building ML infrastructure for video and sensor data
- Experience with time series databases or other storage techniques for sensor data
- Strong grasp of system design principles, API design, and performance optimization techniques

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with robotics systems, real-time data processing, or edge computing environments
- Familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) and model serving platforms (TorchServe, TensorFlow Serving, NVIDIA Triton)
- Background in manufacturing systems, industrial automation, or hardware-software integration
- Experience with high-frequency data streaming and time-series databases
- Track record of building systems that support continuous deployment in production environments
- Understanding of GPU infrastructure and optimization for ML workloads

Nidus Technologies is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!

## About Nidus Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nidus Technologies builds AI-powered robotic manufacturing systems to supercharge America’s industrial base, starting with the defense sector.
- **Entity Type**: Private (early‑stage, funding not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2017 (per Built In) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nidus-technologies)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Applied AI, Manufacturing, Defense
- Target customers: Defense industrial base (largest buyer of US‑made parts); manufacturers needing automation of high‑precision machine operation
- Mission: Reduce manufacturing costs so the US can compete with China, by creating an intelligence layer that enables machines to operate continuously and autonomously.

## Products & Services
- **Autonomous Manufacturing System**: A decision‑making robotic system that operates high‑precision factory machines (e.g., robotic arms) using foundational robotics models and machine learning. Type: Hardware + Software (AI/robotics platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (early‑stage, no public revenue or funding figures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Small, senior technical staff; actively hiring for Robotics Engineer, Backend Engineer, Hardware Engineer; in‑person NYC team with fast iteration

## Competitive Advantages
- Focus on the defense industrial base, a large and stable buyer of US‑made parts
- Uniquely solving autonomous manipulation in real manufacturing environments (an unsolved problem)
- Building foundational robotics models tailored to production‑grade hardware, not just lab demos
- Emphasis on shipping physical‑world performance over benchmarks

## Strategic Focus
- Scale autonomous manufacturing to increase output without increasing headcount
- Deepen integration with the defense supply chain
- Continue iterating on sim‑to‑real pipelines and vision‑language‑action models for production environments

## Why Work Here
- **Early‑stage ownership**: Employees have enormous influence on how the company and product are built
- **Hard technical challenges**: Autonomous manipulation in real factories is a genuinely unsolved, high‑impact problem
- **Mission‑driven**: Work directly supports the US defense industrial base and national security logistics
- **In‑person culture**: NYC‑based, fast iteration, team lunches, no remote roles; hybrid flexibility noted on Built In but careers page emphasizes in‑person
- **Compensation**: Robotics Engineer role offers $200k–$275k salary + meaningful equity stake
- **Hiring process**: Quick (intro call, technical conversation, paid in‑person visit); no cover letter required; portfolio/GitHub welcome but not mandatory

## Sources
1. [nidus.tech](https://nidus.tech/) – Company overview and mission
2. [nidus.tech/careers](https://nidus.tech/careers/) – Careers page with culture and hiring process
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nidus-technologies) – Company details, founded year, office policy
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/nidus-technologies](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nidus-technologies) – Job listings
5. [nidus.tech/careers/robotics-engineer](https://nidus.tech/careers/robotics-engineer/) – Robotics Engineer job posting with salary and responsibilities

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