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Staff Robotics Software Engineer

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

About the role

Senior technical leadership role overseeing robotics software across perception, planning, controls, and execution. Hands-on engineer responsible for architecture, development, mentoring, and driving scalable software practices to enable autonomous robotic capabilities in manufacturing and broader embodied AI.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical architecture and development of core robotics software across perception, motion planning, controls, and execution systems.
  • Design scalable software frameworks that enable reliable, maintainable, and high-performance robotic applications across multiple platforms.
  • Drive motion planning and trajectory generation for complex robotic tasks, including adaptive sensor-driven motion and multi-robot coordination.
  • Develop advanced kinematics, collision checking, reachability analysis, and optimization algorithms for robotic manipulators.
  • Build and optimize real-time control systems, trajectory correction, feature tracking, and visual servoing to improve robot accuracy and reliability.
  • Extend our autonomy stack to support mobile robotic platforms through localization, mapping, navigation, and integrated manipulation.
  • Lead development of hardware abstraction layers and real-time communication with robot controllers, sensors, scanners, and vision systems.
  • Evaluate and integrate modern AI techniques, including reinforcement learning, learned planners, foundation models, and simulation to complement classical robotics approaches.
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to software engineers, establish engineering best practices, and raise the technical bar across the organization.
  • Partner closely with Machine Learning, Perception, Hardware, and Systems Engineering teams to define long-term technical strategy and deliver production-ready robotic capabilities
  • Shape Path's long-term technical roadmap by monitoring emerging research and problem-solving techniques and championing the ones to unlock new capabilities.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field or equivalent industry experience.
  • 8+ years developing robotics software with deep expertise in modern C++, with Python proficiency strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering large-scale robotics software systems from concept through deployment.
  • Deep expertise in one or more of the following: motion planning, manipulation, controls, autonomy, SLAM, localization, perception, or robot simulation.
  • Strong understanding of real-time robotics, systems programming, multithreading, concurrency, and performance optimization.
  • Experience designing software that interfaces directly with robotic hardware and operates reliably in production environments.
  • Proven ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional engineering initiatives without direct management responsibility.
  • Strong Linux development experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern software engineering practices.
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into scalable engineering solutions

Skills

Required:C++Robotics software architectureMotion planningLocalization, SLAM, perceptionReal-time systemsHardware/software integrationLinux, Git, CI/CD
Nice to have:Python

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—help us grow our team!
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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