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Robotics Algorithms Engineer, Manipulation & Control

Path Robotics· Engineering
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Columbus, OHFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineers the real-time closed-loop control and estimation for manipulation robotics, turning sensor data into precise motion on real hardware, with a focus on learning-based and whole-body control.

Responsibilities

  • Own the real-time closed loop from sensing to motion, including state estimation, feedback and predictive control, and correction of end-effector trajectories under uncertainty, noise, and latency.
  • Make engineering calls about what can be estimated from available sensing and design systems that handle uncertainty and fail safely.
  • Build robust hard-real-time software that runs reliably on physical robots (not just in simulation).
  • Set the technical direction toward learning-based and whole-body control.

Qualifications

  • Deep, first-principles real-time control and state estimation (model-predictive control, Kalman/particle/moving-horizon estimation, observability analysis).
  • Manipulation robotics knowledge: arm kinematics and dynamics, trajectory generation and correction, coordinate frames, hand-eye and extrinsic calibration.
  • Sensor-guided motion / visual servoing (closed perception-to-control loops on real hardware).
  • Track record of real-time robotic systems built and run on hardware.
  • Depth in robot perception (geometric/model-based vision, 3D sensing, point-cloud registration, calibration) to reason about perception error propagation into motion.
  • Modern, production C++ for real-time systems.
  • ROS / ROS 2 and hard-real-time software discipline (deterministic loops, timing budgets, buffered concurrency, thread-safety, debugging on real hardware).

Skills

Required:Real-time control theoryManipulation roboticsSensor-guided motion / visual servoingPerception and 3D sensingC++ (production, real-time)ROS / ROS 2

Benefits

  • Daily free lunch
  • Flexible PTO
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 6 weeks fully paid parental leave (plus 6–8 weeks for birthing parents)
  • 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
  • Generous employee referral bonuses
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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