Robotics Engineer - Manipulation and Control

About Path Robotics and the Role

At Path Robotics, we aim to revolutionize the industrial sector by overcoming labor shortages through innovative robotics solutions. Our team is composed of talented, dedicated individuals who tackle complex challenges daily with humility and a spirit of collaboration. We are assembling a top-tier robotics engineering team focused on high-precision, real-time manipulation. This involves developing systems that enable robotic arms and end-effectors to perform exacting physical tasks using live sensor input on imperfectly calibrated platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of the crucial real-time closed-loop control system translating sensor data into precise robotic motion, including state estimation, feedback and predictive control, and trajectory adjustments under conditions of uncertainty, noise, and latency.
• Make informed engineering decisions regarding the estimable parameters from available sensor data and create systems that can assess their uncertainty and handle failures safely.
• Develop robust, hard-real-time software that operates reliably on physical robotic systems beyond simulation environments.
• Guide the technical vision towards integrating learning-based approaches and whole-body control strategies.

Who You Are

• Expert in foundational real-time control and state estimation principles, including model-predictive control, Kalman filters, particle filtering, moving-horizon estimation, and observability analysis; capable of designing and tuning control loops from fundamental mathematical concepts.
• Experienced with manipulation robotics, covering arm kinematics, dynamics, trajectory planning, coordinate transformations, and calibration techniques such as hand-eye and extrinsic calibration.
• Proficient in sensor-guided motion and visual servoing, implementing perception-to-control feedback loops on hardware, understanding sensor errors and latency within control systems.
• Proven track record of building and deploying real-time robotic systems on physical robots.
• Skilled in robot perception, including geometric/model-based vision, 3D sensing, point-cloud registration, and calibration; capable of defining control loop perception requirements and analyzing how perception errors influence motion control.
• Strong command of modern, production-quality C++ programming tailored to real-time applications.
• Experienced with ROS/ROS 2 and practices for creating deterministic, thread-safe hard real-time software, including timing management, concurrency control, and hardware debugging.

Employee Benefits and Culture

• Complimentary daily lunch fostering team connection.
• Flexible paid time off to manage personal needs.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits covering medical, dental, and vision.
• Six weeks of fully paid parental leave, with an additional 6 to 8 weeks for birthing parents (total 12 to 14 weeks).
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan through Empower.
• Attractive employee referral bonuses to encourage team expansion.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Path Robotics is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where diverse ideas are celebrated. Employment consideration is given regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities to ensure an equitable hiring process, with requests responded to within 48 hours.