Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics were attacking a trillion dollar opportunity - doing things that have never been done before 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 building an elite robotics team to solve real-time high-accuracy manipulation making a robot arm and end-effector do precise physical work in the real world from live sensor feedback on platforms that are never perfectly calibrated. We are looking for an exceptional hands-on engineer to own the control-and-estimation heart of that system: the closed loop that turns what the robot senses into accurate motion in real time robustly on real hardware and to set its technical direction as it grows.

What youll do

• Own the real-time closed loop from sensing to motion hands-on: state estimation feedback and predictive control and the correction of end-effector trajectories to hit accuracy targets under uncertainty noise and latency.
• Make hard honest engineering calls about what can and cannot be estimated from the available sensing and design systems that know their own uncertainty and fail safely.
• Build robust hard-real-time software that runs reliably on physical robots not just in simulation.
• Set the technical direction toward learning-based and whole-body control.

Who You Are

• Deep first-principles real-time control and state estimation model-predictive control Kalman/particle/moving-horizon estimation observability analysis.
• Manipulation robotics arm kinematics and dynamics trajectory generation and correction coordinate frames hand-eye and extrinsic calibration.
• Sensor-guided motion / visual servoing closed perception-to-control loops on real hardware (vision- or sensor-guided manipulation)
• Track record of real-time robotic systems built and run on hardware.

• Depth in robot perception geometric/model-based vision 3D sensing point-cloud registration calibration to define what your control loop needs from perception and to reason about how perception error propagates into motion.

• Modern production C for real-time systems.
• ROS / ROS 2 and the discipline of hard-real-time software deterministic loops timing budgets buffered concurrency thread-safety debugging on real hardware.

Why Youll Love It Here

• Daily free lunch to keep you fueled and connected with the team
• Flexible PTO so you can take the time you need when you need it
• Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
• 6 weeks fully paid parental leave plus an additional 68 weeks for birthing parents (1214 weeks total)
• 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
• Generous employee referral bonuseshelp us grow our team!

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.

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