Robotics Software Engineer
Path Robotics3 months ago
Columbus, OH, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Build motion and trajectory planning for patterned, adaptive, sensor-driven motions and resource-aware multi-robot sequencing.
- Develop kinematics, reachability, inverse kinematics, and collision-free trajectory planning for robotic manipulators.
- Build real-time control and feedback loops, including trajectory correction, feature tracking, and camera-based visual servoing.
- Extend robots to mobile platforms through localization, mapping, and navigation.
- Own the hardware driver layer for real-time robot-controller communication and reliable sensor, scanner, and camera interfaces.
- Advance the robotics stack with reinforcement learning, learned planners, simulation, and sim-to-real training.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
- 2–4 years of experience building robotics software in modern C++; Python experience is a strong plus.
- Hands-on experience with real-time robotics, motion control, or controls software that drives physical hardware.
- Experience with multithreading, concurrency, and systems-level debugging.
- Fluency developing and operating software on Linux, with Git.
- Familiarity with TDD, unit testing, and CI/CD.
- Experience with learning-based methods, robot simulation, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, sim-to-real, SLAM, navigation, or ROS is a bonus.
Benefits
- Daily free lunch
- Flexible paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Six weeks of fully paid parental leave, plus an additional six to eight weeks for birthing parents
- 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
- Employee referral bonuses
About Path Robotics
Path Robotics builds AI-driven robotic welding systems that autonomously plan and execute welds for metal fabrication and industrial manufacturers. The privately held company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, sells turnkey welding cells and software with support services, and is expanding into naval and defense fabrication compliant with NAVSEA codes.