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Real-Time Robotics Perception Engineer

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

About the role

Real-Time Robotics Perception Engineer at Path Robotics, responsible for end-to-end real-time perception pipelines on embedded hardware, ensuring robust, honest estimates, geometric localization, and setting technical direction as perception methods evolve.

Responsibilities

  • The real-time perception pipeline, end to end — sensing through extraction and geometry to the output another engineer's control loop acts on, at rate, on embedded hardware, inside a budget you set and measure.
  • Robustness where the signal is being actively degraded.
  • Making the estimate honest about its own failure.
  • Geometric estimation against a known model — recovering where things are, well enough to work against, from partial and imperfect data, and knowing when the geometry does not actually support the answer you just produced.
  • Choosing and proving the instruments. You will evaluate sensing options, run the experiments that settle them, and defend the choice with numbers.
  • Setting the technical direction as the perception work grows toward learned methods.

Qualifications

  • Closed a real-time loop on what a camera saw on real hardware, and something physical moved in response; able to state its rate, end-to-end latency, and how measured (not just model inference time).
  • First-principles depth in classical vision and 3-D geometry — camera geometry, triangulation, registration and error propagation.
  • Real-time segmentation or feature extraction on degraded imagery, deployed rather than benchmarked; understanding why thin and low-contrast structures break standard metrics and losses.
  • Strong, modern, production C++ and ROS 2.
  • GPU-accelerated inference on embedded hardware under a hard per-frame budget, with focus on tail latency rather than mean.
  • A physical accuracy claim you can defend — measured against independent reference, with bias reported separately from repeatability.

Skills

Required:Real-time perception pipeline designRobust perception under degradationUncertainty and failure-aware estimation3-D geometry and camera modelsC++ROS 2GPU-accelerated inference

Benefits

  • Daily free lunch
  • Flexible PTO
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 6 weeks fully paid parental leave, plus an additional 6–8 weeks for birthing parents (12–14 weeks total)
  • 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
  • Generous employee referral bonuses
Last updated Aug 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Path Robotics

Path Robotics | Physical AI for Manufacturing

Path Robotics – Physical AI for manufacturing. Obsidian, our foundational AI, powers Path's Intelligent Welding Cells and Rove. 4x productivity, 30%+ lower cost, $0 capex.

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