Staff Robotics Software Engineer
Path Robotics2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical architecture and development of core robotics software across perception, motion planning, controls, and execution systems.
- Design scalable, reliable, maintainable, and high-performance software frameworks for multiple robotic platforms.
- Develop motion planning and trajectory generation for complex robotic tasks, adaptive sensor-driven motion, and multi-robot coordination.
- Build kinematics, collision checking, reachability analysis, and optimization algorithms for robotic manipulators.
- Develop real-time control systems, trajectory correction, feature tracking, and visual servoing.
- Extend the autonomy stack for mobile robotics through localization, mapping, navigation, and integrated manipulation.
- Develop hardware abstraction layers and real-time communication with robot controllers, sensors, scanners, and vision systems.
- Evaluate and integrate reinforcement learning, learned planners, foundation models, and simulation with classical robotics approaches.
- Mentor software engineers, establish engineering best practices, and raise the technical bar across the organization.
- Partner with Machine Learning, Perception, Hardware, and Systems Engineering teams on technical strategy and production-ready capabilities.
- Shape the long-term technical roadmap by evaluating emerging research and problem-solving techniques.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 8+ years of robotics software development experience with deep expertise in modern C++; Python proficiency is strongly preferred.
- Experience architecting and delivering large-scale robotics software systems from concept through deployment.
- Deep expertise in one or more of motion planning, manipulation, controls, autonomy, SLAM, localization, perception, or robot simulation.
- Strong understanding of real-time robotics, systems programming, multithreading, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Experience designing software that interfaces directly with robotic hardware and operates reliably in production environments.
- Ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional engineering initiatives without direct management responsibility.
- Strong Linux development experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern software engineering practices.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Benefits
- Daily free lunch
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive 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
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.