Path Robotics
Robotics Engineer, Manipulation & Control
Columbus, OhiomidAdded today
About this role
Path Robotics seeks a Robotics Engineer to design and own the real-time control and state estimation systems for robot manipulation, translating sensor feedback into precise, accurate motion on physical hardware. You'll develop closed-loop controllers that handle uncertainty and latency while setting technical direction toward learning-based approaches.
What you'll do
- Own real-time closed-loop control from sensing to motion, including state estimation, feedback control, and trajectory correction
- Design control systems that estimate uncertainty and fail safely given sensor limitations
- Build and deploy robust hard-real-time software on physical robot platforms
- Set technical direction toward learning-based and whole-body control approaches
- Make engineering tradeoffs between what can be estimated from available sensors and system robustness
- Debug and tune control loops on real hardware, not just in simulation
What they're looking for
- Model-predictive control (MPC) and state estimation (Kalman, particle, moving-horizon filters)
- Robot arm kinematics, dynamics, and trajectory generation
- Sensor-guided motion and visual servoing on real hardware
- Production C++ for real-time systems
- ROS/ROS 2 and hard-real-time software principles
- Robot perception (3D vision, point-cloud registration, calibration)
- Hand-eye and extrinsic calibration
- Real-time systems debugging on physical hardware
Benefits
- Daily free lunch
- Flexible PTO
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 6 weeks fully paid parental leave (12–14 weeks for birthing parents)
- 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
- Employee referral bonuses
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Path Robotics
Path Robotics develops autonomous robotic welding systems with adaptive motion planning and AI-driven capabilities for manufacturing. The company is hiring welding engineers, mechanical engineers, machine learning engineers, and technical marketing engineers to advance its mobile robotic welding solutions.
- Website
- pathrobotics.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a real-time control loop you've implemented on physical hardware—what were the biggest challenges with sensing latency and calibration?
- How do you decide what to estimate from sensors versus what assumptions to hard-code, and how do you reason about error propagation?