Senior Robotics Software Engineer: Real‑World AI/Planning

Path Robotics; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily free lunch

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

12-14 weeks parental leave

401(k) retirement plan through Empower

Generous referral bonuses

Job summary

Path Robotics is seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to tackle hard systems problems across perception, planning, and control. You will write modern C++ across the robotics stack and run code on live robotic cells performing real work, while integrating learning-based methods with classical techniques.

You will contribute to motion and trajectory planning, real-time control loops, and mobile platform extensions, collaborating with a world-class team to push the boundaries of embodied

Qualifications

• 5+ years building robotics software in modern C++ (Python a strong plus).
• Hands-on experience with real-time robotics, motion control, or controls software.
• Comfortable with multithreading, concurrency, and debugging systems-level behavior.
• Fluent developing and operating software on Linux, with Git.
• Familiar with solid engineering practice — some mix of TDD, unit testing, and CI/CD.
• Bonus: learning-based methods, robot simulation (RL, imitation learning), sim-to-real, ROS.

Responsibilities

• Build motion and trajectory planning for a variety of task goals from patterned and adaptive, sensor-driven motions to resource-aware sequencing that coordinates multiple robots working the same part.
• Develop kinematics, reachability, and motion planning — inverse kinematics and trajectory planning for robotic manipulators — and validate plans so motion is collision-free and executable.
• Build the real-time control and feedback loops that keep the robot on target as it works — trajectory correction, feature tracking, and camera-based visual servoing.
• Extend our robots beyond fixed workcells to mobile platforms — localization, mapping, and navigation so a moving robot can find its work and hold position while it acts.
• Own the driver layer that connects to robot hardware — streaming motion commands to the robot controller in real time and abstracting sensors, scanners, and cameras behind clean, reliable interfaces.
• Advance the stack with learning-based methods and simulation — reinforcement learning, learned planners, and sim-to-real training, alongside classical approaches.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

Multithreading

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics

Tools

ROS

Git workflows

Job description

Path Robotics is seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to tackle hard systems problems across perception, planning, and control. You will write modern C++ across the robotics stack and run code on live robotic cells performing real work, while integrating learning-based methods with classical techniques.

You will contribute to motion and trajectory planning, real-time control loops, and mobile platform extensions, collaborating with a world-class team to push the boundaries of embodied