Senior Robotics Software Architect - Autonomy & Perception

OhioX; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free lunch

Flexible PTO

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Parental leave (6 weeks)

401(k) retirement plan

Employee referral bonuses

Job summary

Path Robotics is seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our robotics software stack. This hands-on role will architect and build software spanning perception, planning, controls, and execution, mentoring engineers and driving scalable software practices.

You’ll influence cross-team efforts, extend our autonomy stack, and help shape production-ready robotic capabilities for real-world manufacturing environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of robotics software development experience.
• Ability to architect and deliver large-scale robotics software from concept to deployment.
• Deep expertise in motion planning, perception, controls, autonomy, SLAM, localization, or robot simulation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical architecture and development of core robotics software across perception, planning, controls, and execution systems.
• Design scalable software frameworks for reliable, maintainable, high-performance robotic applications across platforms.
• Drive motion planning, trajectory generation, and real-time control improvements.
• Develop kinematics, collision checking, reachability analysis, and optimization for manipulators.
• Mentor engineers, set engineering best practices, and raise technical bar across the org.
• Partner with ML, Perception, Hardware, and Systems teams to define long-term technical strategy.

Skills

Modern C++

Python

Linux

Multithreading

Performance optimization

Git

CI/CD

Automation testing

System architecture

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s / Master’s / Ph.D. in CS / Robotics / EE / Math

Job description

Path Robotics is seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across our robotics software stack. This hands-on role will architect and build software spanning perception, planning, controls, and execution, mentoring engineers and driving scalable software practices.

You’ll influence cross-team efforts, extend our autonomy stack, and help shape production-ready robotic capabilities for real-world manufacturing environments.