Real-Time Perception & Vision Engineer

Path Robotics; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free lunch

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

6 weeks parental leave + 12–14 weeks (

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Path Robotics is hiring a Perception Engineer to own the real-time perception loop on embedded hardware. You will push the end-to-end pipeline from sensing to output, ensure robustness under degraded signals, and validate geometric estimates against known models.

You will work with production C++ and ROS 2, optimize for per-frame budgets, and contribute toward learning-based perception directions as the system matures.

Qualifications

• Strong, production-grade C++ proficiency for real-time perception systems.
• Experience with ROS 2 and distributed perception pipelines.
• Understanding of camera geometry, triangulation, and calibration.

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end real-time perception pipeline on embedded hardware.
• Improve robustness when sensing signals are degraded.
• Design self-assessing estimates that reveal their own failures.
• Perform geometric estimation against known models.
• Evaluate sensing options and defend choices with data.

Skills

C++

ROS 2

Real-time perception

Embedded hardware

Geometric estimation

GPU-accelerated inference

Tools

ROS 2

C++ toolchain

Job description

Path Robotics is hiring a Perception Engineer to own the real-time perception loop on embedded hardware. You will push the end-to-end pipeline from sensing to output, ensure robustness under degraded signals, and validate geometric estimates against known models.

You will work with production C++ and ROS 2, optimize for per-frame budgets, and contribute toward learning-based perception directions as the system matures.