Staff 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 lead the architecture and development of robotics software across perception, motion planning, controls, and execution. You will build scalable frameworks, optimize real-time systems, integrate AI techniques, mentor engineers, and guide long-term technical direction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience
- 8+ years developing robotics software
- Deep expertise in modern C++
- Python proficiency
- Experience architecting and delivering large-scale robotics software systems
- Expertise in motion planning, manipulation, controls, autonomy, SLAM, localization, perception, or robot simulation
- Understanding of real-time robotics, systems programming, multithreading, concurrency, and performance optimization
- Experience interfacing software directly with robotic hardware
- Linux, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern software engineering experience
- Ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional initiatives
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and development of robotics software across perception, motion planning, controls, and execution
- Design scalable, reliable, maintainable, and high-performance robotics software frameworks
- Drive motion planning and trajectory generation for complex robotic tasks
- Develop kinematics, collision checking, reachability analysis, and optimization algorithms
- Build and optimize real-time control systems, trajectory correction, feature tracking, and visual servoing
- Extend the autonomy stack with localization, mapping, navigation, and integrated manipulation
- Lead development of hardware abstraction layers and real-time communication with robot hardware
- Evaluate and integrate AI techniques including reinforcement learning, learned planners, foundation models, and simulation
- Mentor engineers and establish software engineering best practices
- Define technical strategy and production-ready robotic capabilities
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