Senior Robotics Software Engineer
Path RoboticsVisit Path Robotics website
Path Robotics develops physical-AI robotic welding systems for manufacturing.
Columbus, United States
Funding history
About Path Robotics
Path Robotics builds autonomous welding cells and mobile welding systems powered by its Obsidian AI model, which uses real-time sensing and adaptation to weld variable industrial parts.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build modern C++ software across perception, planning, real-time execution, and closed-loop robotic control. You will develop collision-free motion plans, hardware drivers, localization and navigation capabilities, and learning-based or simulation-driven improvements to robot performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of robotics software development experience in modern C++
- Python experience is a strong plus
- Experience with real-time robotics, motion control, or controls software
- Multithreading, concurrency, and systems-level debugging skills
- Linux and Git experience
- Knowledge of TDD, unit testing, or CI/CD
- Experience with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, sim-to-real, SLAM, navigation, or ROS is a plus
Responsibilities
- Build motion and trajectory planning for task goals and multi-robot coordination
- Develop kinematics, reachability, inverse kinematics, and collision-free trajectory planning
- Build real-time control and feedback loops for trajectory correction, feature tracking, and visual servoing
- Extend robotic capabilities to mobile platforms through localization, mapping, and navigation
- Own hardware driver layers for robot controllers, sensors, scanners, and cameras
- Advance the robotics stack with reinforcement learning, learned planners, simulation, and sim-to-real training
Benefits
- Daily free lunch
- Flexible PTO
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 6 weeks of fully paid parental leave, plus an additional 6–8 weeks for birthing parents
- 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
- Employee referral bonuses
