Senior Robotics Engineer

At Path Robotics, we’re attacking a trillion dollar opportunity – doing things that have never been done before in Robotics, AI, and machine learning to support an industry hurting from a lack of skilled labor. Big, hard problems are what Path tackles every day and our people are our greatest asset to get that job done. Our intelligent, hardworking team of people do the impossible every single day, yet remain incredibly kind, humble, and always ready to support one another.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Robotics Engineer who thrives on innovation and is eager to contribute to the future of manufacturing. Joining our dynamic team, you’ll have the opportunity to develop cutting-edge techniques, with a particular focus on advancing force feedback control systems. As part of our collaborative environment, you’ll work alongside dedicated professionals, driving forward the development of state-of-the-art robotic solutions. If you’re ready to take on the hardest problems with the best team on the planet, we invite you to bring your expertise and enthusiasm!

What You’ll Do

• Develop, implement, and test state-of-the-art motion planning, localization, and control algorithms for industrial robotic manipulators
• Help to architect and build a powerful, flexible, and well-engineered software platform that can be used for a variety of robotics tasks
• Champion collaboration with your cross-functional teammates
• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to define the roadmap for robotics projects, ensuring alignment with company goals and market demands.
• Identify opportunities to optimize the performance of robotic systems, including speed, accuracy, and efficiency, through algorithmic improvements and hardware enhancements.
• Continuously assess and improve the development processes, tools, and methodologies used within the robotics engineering team to enhance productivity and quality of deliverables.

Who You Are

• You are excited to work on autonomous robotics systems
• You care about quality and are dedicated to shipping high-quality code
• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Mathematic or equivalent experience
• Have 5+ years of experience building distributed systems in C++, Python, or .Net
• You have experience with one or more: TDD, ATDD, Unit Test, CI/CD, and agile/XP
• Experienced with deploying and operating services on Linux
• You have experience with version control, preferably Git
• Have a strong mathematical background
• You have the ability to rapidly implement and iterate on ideas
• Strong expertise in approaches for path planning and robot control, and also with tools such as ROS, MoveIt etc. 
• You have familiarity/experience with developing fine-grained control tasks using force feedback or other active approaches to robot control.
• Experience with contemporary approaches to robot control such as neural network/transformer approaches for path planning, VLMs for picking and manipulation tasks etc.
• You are excited by the opportunity to be a part of a well funded, venture-backed company, where your work will have an immediate and direct impact
• You are passionate about what you do and enjoy working in a collaborative environment

Desired but not required:

• Experience developing advanced force feedback control systems
• You have significant open source contributions

Who We Are

At Path Robotics we love coming to work to solve interesting and tough challenges but also because our ideas are welcomed and valued. We encourage unique thinking and are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Free lunch every day
• Flexible PTO
• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance with 100% coverage on monthly medical premiums for you and any dependents (nothing comes out of your paycheck!)
• 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