Real-Time Robotic Manipulation & Control Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Daily free lunch

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, vision

6 weeks parental leave + extra weeks

401(k) retirement plan

Referral bonuses

Job summary

Path Robotics is building an elite robotics team to solve real-time, high-accuracy manipulation on live hardware. You will own the control-and-estimation heart of the system, turning sensing into precise motion with robust real-time performance.

You will influence technical direction toward learning-based and whole-body control while working on real hardware and with ROS/ROS 2 in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering real-time robotics software on hardware.
• Proficiency with state estimation and control in uncertain environments.
• Ability to design systems with defined failure modes and safety.

Responsibilities

• Own real-time closed-loop from sensing to motion on hardware.
• Define what can be estimated from sensor data and manage uncertainty.
• Develop robust real-time software for robot arms.
• Advance toward learning-based and whole-body control.

Skills

Real-time control

State estimation

Model-predictive control

Kalman/particle estimation

Robot manipulation

Trajectory generation

Coordinate frames

Calibration

C++ RT

ROS/ROS 2

Tools

C++ RT

ROS 2

RTOS

Git

Job description

Path Robotics is building an elite robotics team to solve real-time, high-accuracy manipulation on live hardware. You will own the control-and-estimation heart of the system, turning sensing into precise motion with robust real-time performance.

You will influence technical direction toward learning-based and whole-body control while working on real hardware and with ROS/ROS 2 in a fast-paced environment.