Autonomous robotics and edge AI for in-store retail intelligence
Simbe builds store-scanning robots and edge AI that turn retail shelves into structured data, running a ROS 2 and C++ robotics core on NVIDIA Jetson with a PyTorch-to-TensorRT inference path. Four labeling tools (CVAT, Labelbox, Roboflow, Supervisely) point to a heavy computer-vision data operation. Accelerating hiring mixes engineering and data with finance build-out tied to IPO readiness, plus a new IT Security Lead for robot fleet security.
Notable leadership hires: IT Security Lead
Simbe, founded in 2014 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, sells a vertically integrated platform to retailers that tracks in-store conditions. It combines autonomous robots, computer vision, RFID, fixed sensors and edge AI to monitor inventory availability, product placement, pricing, promotions and merchandising. Those insights feed applications, workflows and AI agents used by store teams. The privately held company has 51–200 employees and reports deployments across thousands of stores in nearly a dozen countries.
Simbe uses C++, Python, ROS and ROS 2 on NVIDIA Jetson, with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, TensorRT and CUDA for vision models, plus AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Airflow, Apache Beam and dbt.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and US-based, led by engineering and data roles, with additional openings in finance, security, marketing, logistics and support, skewed toward senior talent.
Job posts point to AI-driven financial forecasting, a security certification program, security architecture for product features, AI tool governance, continuous regression testing and an expanded analyst relations program.
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