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Senior Software Engineer

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

About the role

Senior Software Engineer at Path Robotics responsible for architecting and maintaining production-grade Python systems, building internal tooling, and serving as a technical lead to support ML, computer vision, and robotics research workflows from prototype to production.

Responsibilities

  • Architect production-grade Python systems that make experimentation, prototyping, and deployment fast, reliable, and low-friction for research teams.
  • Lead engineering best practices around code quality, testing, modularity, and documentation to keep the codebase clean and maintainable.
  • Build internal tooling, APIs, and libraries that abstract away infrastructure complexity so researchers can focus on solving ML, CV, and robotics problems.
  • Collaborate with the data platform team to integrate data processing, training, and inference capabilities — without owning those pipelines end-to-end.
  • Design CI/CD workflows for research-heavy Python projects to ensure smooth transition from prototype to production.
  • Act as a technical lead within the research team, making key engineering decisions and mentoring others in writing high-quality, maintainable code.

Qualifications

  • Strong background in software architecture and large-scale backend development in any language (C#, Java, Python, etc)
  • Experience building developer tools, frameworks, or platforms for technical teams.
  • Proven experience with cloud-based development, including designing and managing data storage, persistence, and secure access in cloud environments, and integrating on-premises infrastructure with cloud services.
  • Excited to learn ML/CV/robotics workflows well enough to support them — but superpower is building great software, not tuning models.
  • Thrive in collaborative environments where you’re a bridge between research and production.

Skills

Required:Architecture and large-scale backend developmentDeveloper tools / framework buildingCloud-based developmentCollaboration across research and production
Nice to have:Mentorship and leadership

Benefits

  • Free lunch every day
  • Flexible PTO
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • 6 weeks 100% paid parental leave plus an additional 6-8 weeks maternity leave for the birthing parent (12-14 weeks total)
  • 401K through Empower
  • Paid Referral Bonus
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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