Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Machine Learning Engineer with expertise in modern robotics and manipulation to join our Robot Learning team to build agentic AI systems for industrial applications. The ideal candidate will have experience in robotics, with a focus on developing and implementing advanced manipulation techniques, motion control systems, and planning algorithms for autonomous robots. This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to design, test, and deploy innovative solutions that improve the performance and capabilities of our robotic systems.

What You’ll Do

• Work on the development and deployment of behavioral cloning (BC), reinforcement learning (RL), and diffusion models to solve complex robotic tasks.
• Leverage multi-modal data, including image-based data, force, and torque to enhance robotic manipulation and control.
• Design and implement vision-language-action (VLA) models for more intelligent and responsive robotic systems.
• Craft strategies for the entire solution's lifecycle, including data collection, fleet learning, and continuous learning.
• Develop, optimize, and deploy learning-based methods for robot control and object manipulation algorithms on a fleet of industrial robotic cells.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to integrate manipulation, control, and planning algorithms into robotic platforms.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in robotics, control theory, and planning algorithms.

Who You Are

• Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Proven track record in publishing at top conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CoRL, RLC).
• Experience with robotic simulation tools (e.g., Isaac Sim, MuJoCo).
• Experience with machine learning techniques applied to robot manipulation.
• Experience building models from scratch and deploying them in real-world applications.
• Experience with pose estimation, segmentation, active perception, and affordance-based bin picking.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as C++ or Python.
• Experience with robotic simulation tools (e.g., Isaac Sim, MuJoCo).
• Proven track record of deploying scalable solutions for autonomous robotic systems.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to a diverse audience.

Why You'll 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 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!

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.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process or any part of the hiring process, please contact HR@path-robotics.com. We are committed to providing equal access and will work with qualified individuals to ensure a fair and accessible hiring experience. We will respond to your request within 48 hours.

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

We're seeking passionate ML Engineers to join our team at the intersection of welding science and artificial intelligence. We currently have experienced (L3/L4), senior (L5) and staff (L6) level openings within and you'll be instrumental in developing robotic welding solutions. You'll use your skills in computer vision, deep learning, and Python programming to tackle challenges in our field alongside our talented teams.

What You’ll Do

Experienced:

• Implement, validate, and iterate on machine learning algorithms for weld perception tasks, including point cloud registration, seam detection, and joint geometry estimation, progressively expanding coverage across joint types and part geometries.
• Build and maintain data pipelines for training and evaluating perception models, spanning annotated 3D scan data ingestion, synthetic data generation, and structured dataset management for iterative model improvement.
• Run rigorous model evaluation experiments, including failure mode analysis, FP/FN rate characterization, and benchmarking against quantitative registration accuracy thresholds, and communicate findings clearly to guide next steps.
• Integrate trained models into production ROS-based robotics services, ensuring low-latency inference and compatibility with deployed cell configurations.
• Write clean, well-tested Python code; participate actively in code and experiment reviews; and maintain clear documentation of methods, parameters, and results.

Senior/Staff:

• Lead research, development, and production deployment of advanced perception algorithms spanning point cloud registration, seam detection, and real-time in-process tracking across structured light, RGB, and stereo sensors.
• Design and lead experiments evaluating state-of-the-art deep learning models, including transformer-based and geometric feature learning architectures
• Design and lead real-time perception systems such as during-weld seam tracking, applying sensor fusion with probabilistic state estimation (e.g., Kalman filtering) to achieve robust weld performance.
• Define and own the end-to-end ML lifecycle, from dataset design and annotation strategy through training, benchmarking, and fleet deployment, with clear go/no-go evaluation frameworks.
• Architect distributed training and hyperparameter optimization workflows; drive strategy for data acquisition, annotation tooling, and synthetic vs. real scan data usage.
• Mentor engineers across levels, providing technical leadership on perception systems and ML methodology.

Who You Are

• Master's or Ph.D. in CS, Robotics, or related field (Computer Vision, ML, or Perception); Bachelor's with strong production ML experience also considered. 
• 3+ years (Experienced) / 7+ years (Senior/Staff) in real-world robotics or industrial ML.
• Strong Python fluency and hands-on PyTorch experience, including training, evaluating, and deploying deep learning models in production.
• Experience with 3D point cloud data and libraries such as Open3D, including geometric concepts like surface segmentation, spatial queries, and point-wise labeling.
• Familiarity with 3D deep learning architectures such as PointNet++, GeoTransformer, or similar transformer-based or graph-based approaches on geometric data.
• Comfortable integrating ML models into production robotics services within ROS-based architectures and containerized deployment environments.
• Senior/Staff: Demonstrated track record leading end-to-end ML projects from dataset design through fleet deployment with rigorous go/no-go frameworks; experience architecting distributed training and hyperparameter optimization workflows

Why You’ll Love Working 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 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!

Who We Are

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

We are standing up a new Robot Learning team focused on whole-body loco-manipulation for precision tasks in heavy manufacturing. 

We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join us as a founding member. You will be among the first ML engineers on a research stack that does not exist anywhere else in the field built around visual reasoning, learned action policies, and reinforcement-learning fine-tuning from real customer data.

What You’ll Do

• Build the team's robot-learning stack from the ground up. This is a founding role; you are designing the training infrastructure, data pipelines, simulation environments, model architectures, and deployment workflows — not inheriting them. Multi-modal perception, scene understanding, and learned action generation work in tight coordination on the stack you help create.
• Stand up ML infrastructure — training pipelines, experiment tracking, data versioning, reproducible sim-to-real workflows.
• Train policies across manipulation, locomotion, and the whole-body control coupling between them. On legged platforms performing precision tasks, manipulation and locomotion are not separable — every arm motion shifts the centre of mass; the whole-body controller compensates in real time to maintain accuracy at the tool. Behavioural cloning, diffusion- and flow-matching action generation, reinforcement-learning fine-tuning. Cobots, industrial arms, and mobile platforms.
• Deploy in stages — through a phased rollout strategy that builds production trust over time. Every real-world execution accumulates training data for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate daily with mechanical engineers, perception engineers, robotics engineers, and manufacturing domain experts. Within-department rotation across home teams is expected.

Who You Are

• Ph.D. or Master's degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field — or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on robot learning experience. You have trained policies and deployed them on real robot hardware — not just in simulation.
• Sim-to-real transfer experience — built simulation environments, implemented domain randomisation, transferred policies to physical robots, debugged where it broke.
• Implementation experience with diffusion-based or flow-matching action policies for robots, and with action chunking.
• Reinforcement learning for robotics applied on real hardware — sample-efficient on-robot methods, residual RL on top of pretrained policies, on-policy fine-tuning of foundation policies.
• Strong programming skills in Python; PyTorch and ML training infrastructure at production level.
• Practical experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or equivalent.
• Comfort with physical robots — debugging, iterating, deploying.
• Strong communication skills, able to convey complex technical concepts to a diverse audience.

Strongly Preferred:

• Edge inference on edge-class hardware (TensorRT, ONNX, FP16 / INT8 quantisation). Real-time on-robot deployment is a core requirement.
• Visual self-supervised representation learning experience on robot or 3D-vision tasks.
• Legged-robot or whole-body control experience — locomotion, manipulation on a floating base, or the integration between them on quadrupeds or humanoids.
• Physics-informed ML — hybrid models where learned components are constrained by known physics.
• Experience building ML pipelines or infrastructure in a team setting.

Why You’ll Love Working 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 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!

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.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process or any part of the hiring process, please contact HR@path-robotics.com. We are committed to providing equal access and will work with qualified individuals to ensure a fair and accessible hiring experience. We will respond to your request within 48 hours.

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Technical Project Manager who thrives on bringing teams together from concept to execution. In this role, you will oversee program execution, drive cross-functional alignment, and ensure our robotic AI projects are delivered on time, within scope, and with high quality. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of robotics innovation and to contribute directly to the success of a rapidly scaling startup.

What You’ll Do

• Drive major programs from concept through customer deployment ensuring scope, timelines, and dependencies are aligned across functions.
• Ensure effective communication, collaboration, and dependencies between Product, Operations and Engineering, translating technical requirements into operational workflows and ensuring feedback loops between both groups remain tight and effective.
• Develop and maintain integrated program schedules with clear milestones, deliverables, and critical paths to keep projects on track.
• Facilitate structured change management for product updates, new feature releases, and changing customer priorities that impact engineering roadmaps.
• Assess upstream and downstream impacts of changes and ensure teams are resourced and informed before execution.
• Run regular cross-functional program reviews to track progress, surface risks, and drive decision-making.
• Maintain clear visibility into program status for executives and stakeholders.
• Drive Continuous Improvement identifying recurring friction points between teams and implement processes to reduce rework and missed handoffs.
• Champion process improvements that standardize workflows, streamline collaboration, and enable the organization to scale effectively

Who You Are

• 7+ years of program or technical project management experience in complex hardware/software environments, with demonstrated ownership of multiple end-to-end product or system launches spanning engineering, manufacturing, and deployment.
• Proven ability to manage multi-disciplinary programs with competing priorities.
• Strong understanding of product development, engineering, manufacturing, and deployment lifecycles.
• Exceptional communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience implementing or improving cross-functional program management and change management processes.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Confluence).
• PMP or equivalent certification is a plus, but not required.

Why You'll 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 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!
  

Who We Are

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

You will play a mission-critical role in architecting our data platform, enabling our machine learning and robotics teams to move faster, experiment more effectively, and deploy AI solutions into production.

This is a founding-level opportunity to lay the groundwork for our entire data infrastructure and build the data team. Reporting to the Director of AI, you’ll collaborate with a talented team of machine learning engineers and software engineers to deliver clean, reliable, and scalable data pipelines that fuel experimentation, production models, and cutting-edge AI development.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and build our end-to-end data platform, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, quality monitoring, and data access layers.
• Lead initiatives that break down data silos and enable seamless collaboration between business domains
• Design and develop optimized database architecture and data schemas with strategic partitioning for large scale multi-modal data.
• Implement scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that serve experimentation, training, validation, and real-time deployment needs across robotics and AI systems.
• Collaborate with ML and robotics engineers to define and deliver the data infrastructure required for cutting-edge model development and real-world deployment.
• Establish data governance, reproducibility, and lineage standards to ensure data integrity and traceability at scale.
• Develop data contracts and API specifications to ensure reliable data exchange between robotics systems, ML models, and downstream applications.
• Write production-grade, maintainable, and well-documented Python and SQL code for critical data workflows.
• Help shape our MLOps, observability, and CI/CD practices for continuous learning systems in physical environments.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong track record of building scalable data systems and infrastructure from the ground up.
• Previous experience supporting AI/ML teams with data platforms in fast-paced or startup environments.
• Deep proficiency in SQL, Python, and distributed data systems.
• Hands-on experience with tools like AWS, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt, or equivalent modern data stack.
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or similar platforms for real-time data processing.
• Passionate about building clean, reliable data pipelines that power real-time ML and robotics workflows.
• Experience with data quality, observability, and production monitoring of data systems.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and taking ownership. You’re excited to build and own the foundation of a data-first company.
• Bonus: experience working with sensor data, robotics logs, time series, or other high-volume real-world datasets.

Why You’ll Love Working 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 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!

Who We Are

Regulatory and Compliance Requirements
This position may support work performed under U.S. Government contracts and requires compliance with applicable federal regulations, including FAR and DFARS where applicable.
The role may involve access to export-controlled information subject to ITAR and/or EAR. Candidates must be able to comply with U.S. export control regulations, which may include meeting the definition of a “U.S. Person” where required.
This position may also involve handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and requires adherence to company and federal data protection and confidentiality standards. Employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check consistent with applicable requirements.

About Path robotics

Path Robotics is redefining what's possible in autonomous welding. Our AI-powered robotic welding systems use advanced sensing and computer vision to adapt in real time — no fixtures, no programming, no limits. We're building the future of manufacturing, and we're looking for engineers who want to get their hands dirty doing it.

The Role

We're looking for a Software Engineer with strong systems-level instincts and experience building software that interfaces directly with hardware. You'll work across our sensing stack, robotic platform, and compute infrastructure — writing the code that lets our robots see, move, and think. This is a role for someone who's comfortable working close to the metal: writing HALs, integrating sensors and actuators, and squeezing performance out of embedded compute platforms.

What You’ll Do

• Develop full-stack software for sensing and robotic systems, including HALs for cameras, laser sensors, and communication interfaces.
  
  
• Build and extend the software architecture that integrates robotic arms, welding systems, and peripheral hardware into a unified control stack.
  
  
• Design and implement robust device drivers, HALs, and ROS-based components for production robotic applications.
  
  
• Develop and optimize software for embedded compute platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson, including real-time and GPU-accelerated workloads.
  
  
• Work closely with hardware, firmware, and systems teams to bring up devices, debug issues across the stack, support deployments, and improve field performance.

Who You Are

• 3–6 years of software engineering experience in robotics, automation, embedded systems, or a related field.
  
  
• Strong C++ skills in production environments, with working knowledge of Python for tooling, scripting, and testing.
  
  
• Hands-on experience with ROS or ROS2 in deployed systems.
  
  
• Experience building HALs, device drivers, or other low-level software for sensors, actuators, and hardware peripherals.
  
  
• Comfortable with embedded Linux, cross-compilation, and working alongside hardware and firmware engineers to debug integrated systems.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Competitive salary and equity in a well-funded, high-growth robotics company
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k)
• Flexible PTO
• Hands-on, collaborative culture

*Path Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.*

Who We Are

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer with deep experience in C++ and Python to lead the development of core systems powering our intelligent robotic platforms. In this role, you’ll architect and implement high-performance software at the intersection of real-time robotics, perception, and machine learning. You’ll take technical ownership of critical components, mentor team members, and help shape the future of our robotics software stack.

What You’ll Do

• Drive software architecture decisions across robotics and perception systems.
• Design, implement, and optimize performance-critical components of the robotics and perception stack in C++ and Python.
• Develop and integrate 3D point cloud processing algorithms for weld joint perception, including registration, pose estimation, segmentation, and geometric reasoning.
• Lead the integration of machine learning models into real-time systems, ensuring low-latency, high-reliability performance.
• Design and implement gRPC/Protobuf service interfaces with attention to schema versioning and backward-compatible API evolution.
• Instrument perception systems for production observability, building telemetry pipelines that connect algorithmic metrics to business outcomes.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering; title and compensation will be commensurate with experience.
• Solid grasp of system-level software design, concurrency, memory management, and optimization.
• Advanced proficiency in modern C++ and Python, with demonstrated experience building production services using gRPC and Protobuf.
• Experience with robotics or perception applications, including familiarity with ROS/ROS2, motion planning, and hardware interfaces is preferred.
• Proficient in Linux-based development; experience with Docker strongly preferred

Why You’ll Love Working 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 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!

Who We Are

About Path robotics

Path Robotics is redefining what's possible in autonomous welding. Our AI-powered robotic welding systems use advanced sensing and computer vision to adapt in real time — no fixtures, no programming, no limits. We're building the future of manufacturing, and we're looking for engineers who want to get their hands dirty doing it.

The Role

We're looking for a Software Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure that powers our AI and machine learning workflows. You'll be the bridge between our AI research team and production — building the tooling, pipelines, and deployment systems that let models go from experiment to factory floor. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems but speaks ML: you understand what researchers need, and you know how to build reliable software around it.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain the software infrastructure that supports robot learning, including model training, experiment tracking, versioning, and deployment.
  
  
• Develop pipelines and tools for collecting, processing, and curating large-scale robotic sensor and telemetry data.
  
  
• Support deployment of AI models onto robotic systems, including simulation, hardware integration, runtime monitoring, and feedback loops from field data.
  
  
• Build internal tools that accelerate AI engineering workflows across dataset exploration, testing, evaluation, and productionisation.
  
  
• Partner closely with AI researchers and robotics engineers to turn model requirements into robust, scalable software systems.

Who You Are

• You have 3–6 years of software engineering experience, with solid exposure to ML infrastructure, MLOps, or AI-enabled systems.
  
  
• You write strong production software in Python, and ideally also have experience with C++, ROS, or robotics software stacks.
  
  
• You have experience with PyTorch and a practical understanding of the software systems needed to support AI model development.
  
  
• You are comfortable with data pipelines, simulation environments, containerised workflows, and GPU compute in Linux environments.
  
  
• You enjoy working across AI and robotics, and can support the full path from data collection and testing through to deployment on real systems.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Competitive salary and equity in a well-funded, high-growth robotics company
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k)
• Flexible PTO
• Hands-on, collaborative culture

*Path Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.*

Who We Are

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer with deep experience in C++ and Python to lead the development of core systems powering our intelligent robotic platforms. In this role, you’ll architect and implement high-performance software at the intersection of real-time robotics, perception, and machine learning. You’ll take technical ownership of critical components, mentor team members, and help shape the future of our robotics software stack.

What You’ll Do

• Drive software architecture decisions across robotics and perception systems.
• Design, implement, and optimize performance-critical components of the robotics and perception stack in C++ and Python.
• Develop and integrate 3D point cloud processing algorithms for weld joint perception, including registration, pose estimation, segmentation, and geometric reasoning.
• Lead the integration of machine learning models into real-time systems, ensuring low-latency, high-reliability performance.
• Design and implement gRPC/Protobuf service interfaces with attention to schema versioning and backward-compatible API evolution.
• Instrument perception systems for production observability, building telemetry pipelines that connect algorithmic metrics to business outcomes.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering; title and compensation will be commensurate with experience.
• Solid grasp of system-level software design, concurrency, memory management, and optimization.
• Advanced proficiency in modern C++ and Python, with demonstrated experience building production services using gRPC and Protobuf.
• Experience with robotics or perception applications, including familiarity with ROS/ROS2, motion planning, and hardware interfaces is preferred.
• Proficient in Linux-based development; experience with Docker strongly preferred

Why You’ll Love Working 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 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!

Who We Are

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer with deep experience in C++ and Python to lead the development of core systems powering our intelligent robotic platforms. In this role, you’ll architect and implement high-performance software at the intersection of real-time robotics, perception, and machine learning. You’ll take technical ownership of critical components, mentor team members, and help shape the future of our robotics software stack.

What You’ll Do

• Drive software architecture decisions across robotics and perception systems.
• Design, implement, and optimize performance-critical components of the robotics and perception stack in C++ and Python.
• Develop and integrate 3D point cloud processing algorithms for weld joint perception, including registration, pose estimation, segmentation, and geometric reasoning.
• Lead the integration of machine learning models into real-time systems, ensuring low-latency, high-reliability performance.
• Design and implement gRPC/Protobuf service interfaces with attention to schema versioning and backward-compatible API evolution.
• Instrument perception systems for production observability, building telemetry pipelines that connect algorithmic metrics to business outcomes.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering; title and compensation will be commensurate with experience.
• Solid grasp of system-level software design, concurrency, memory management, and optimization.
• Advanced proficiency in modern C++ and Python, with demonstrated experience building production services using gRPC and Protobuf.
• Experience with robotics or perception applications, including familiarity with ROS/ROS2, motion planning, and hardware interfaces is preferred.
• Proficient in Linux-based development; experience with Docker strongly preferred

Why You’ll Love Working 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 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!

Who We Are

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re 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’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to be the architect and caretaker of our codebase, building the systems and tools that make it easy for our ML, CV, and robotics engineers to explore ideas and turn them into production-grade solutions. You’ll work closely with our research teams and our data platform team — leveraging their data and ML infrastructure expertise — while focusing on creating a robust, scalable, and developer-friendly foundation.

What You’ll Do

• Architect production-grade Python systems that make experimentation, prototyping, and deployment fast, reliable, and low-friction for research teams.
• Lead engineering best practices around code quality, testing, modularity, and documentation to keep our codebase clean and maintainable.
• Build internal tooling, APIs, and libraries that abstract away infrastructure complexity so researchers can focus on solving ML, CV, and robotics problems.
• Collaborate with the data platform team to integrate data processing, training, and inference capabilities — without owning those pipelines end-to-end.
• Design CI/CD workflows for research-heavy Python projects to ensure smooth transition from prototype to production.
• Act as a technical lead within the research team, making key engineering decisions and mentoring others in writing high-quality, maintainable code.

Who You Are

• Strong background in software architecture and large-scale backend development in any language (C#, Java, Python, etc)
• Have experience building developer tools, frameworks, or platforms for technical teams.
• Proven experience with cloud-based development, including designing and managing data storage, persistence, and secure access in cloud environments, and integrating on-premises infrastructure with cloud services.
• Excited to learn ML/CV/robotics workflows well enough to support them — but your superpower is building great software, not tuning models.
• Thrive in collaborative environments where you’re a bridge between research and production.

Team Player:

• Startup Energizer: The idea of joining a growing venture-backed startup excites you because you know your work will have an immediate and significant impact.
• Collaboration Champion: You thrive in a collaborative environment, working closely with others to achieve common goals and drive success.
• Mentorship Minded: You are passionate about helping peers, fostering best practices, and promoting continuous improvement within the team.
• Quality Advocate: You are dedicated to maintaining high standards of quality, shipping reliable and high-quality code that you can be proud of, knowing that good quality also enables fast delivery.

Why You'll Love It Here

• Free lunch every day
• Flexible PTO
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 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

Who We Are

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

Manufacturing demands exceptionally high performance, reliability, and adaptability. Processes like welding involve fast, complex, and poorly modeled physics that traditional simulators struggle to capture - especially in the long tail of real-world conditions.

We are building intelligent robotic systems that learn directly from data by combining neural world models with reinforcement learning. Our goal is to give robots the ability to learn, predict, and plan in complex manufacturing environments by replacing or augmenting classical physics simulators with fast, high-fidelity learned ones.

We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of a neural welding simulator - a learned world model that captures the visual and physical dynamics of welding and enables large-scale RL training. This role sits at the intersection of generative modeling, robotics, and applied physics. It is research-heavy by design, while still grounded in production reality.

This role can be located in our Columbus, Ohio Headquarters or Remote.

What You’ll Do

• Build a learned world model of the welding process that predicts future system behavior under robot actions.
• Develop multimodal neural simulators incorporating signals such as 3D scans, video, thermal data, and electrical measurements.
• Design, train, and evaluate large-scale generative or dynamics models (e.g., video prediction, latent world models, 3D or spatiotemporal representations) capable of long-horizon rollouts.
• Collaborate with reinforcement learning engineers by integrating the neural simulator into RL pipelines for policy training and evaluation.
• Run research tracks in parallel with production development, including hypothesis-driven experimentation and ablation.
• Partner closely with data and MLOps teams to support scalable training, evaluation, and deployment - while remaining comfortable owning pieces of the stack when needed.
• Translate research prototypes into robust, maintainable production code when they prove valuable.
• Validate simulator performance against real-world robotic welding data and support sim-to-real transfer.

Who You Are

• Experience building and deploying ML systems for robotics or other complex physical processes in real-world settings.
• Hands-on experience with world models, learned simulators, video generation, 3D modeling, or dynamics prediction.
• Comfortable training large models from scratch and working with the tooling and infrastructure required to scale experiments.
• Enjoy working with messy, real-world data and are pragmatic about imperfect ground truth.
• Strong software engineer with solid Python skills and experience in frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
• You are excited by a role that blends research depth with practical impact, and you’re willing to context-switch when the team needs it.

A Note on Background

We do not expect prior welding experience. We do expect comfort modeling complex physical systems from data, reasoning about failure modes, and iterating toward accuracy under real-world constraints.

Why This Role

• You’ll help define the core learning infrastructure that underpins our robotic systems
• You’ll have space to pursue research tracks that run in parallel with production development.
• You’ll work on problems where success is measurable in the physical world - not just benchmarks.
• You’ll join a team that values depth, ownership, and adaptability over narrow specialization.

Why You’ll Love Working 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 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!

Who We Are

Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use.

Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.

We are standing up a new Robot Learning team focused on whole-body loco-manipulation for precision tasks in heavy manufacturing. 

We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead) for this new team. You write code, set the technical direction, make the architectural decisions the team builds on, mentor junior and intermediate engineers, and help shape how the team works.

What You’ll Do

• Set the ML technical direction for the team, architectural choices on perception, reasoning, and action generation; training methodology; data strategy; the path from research bet to deployed capability. As one of the first senior hires, you are designing the approach, not extending it.
• Own the architectural workstreams that define the team's research and engineering bets — multiple core build streams across action-policy learning, world-model-based supervision, and policy-orchestration interfaces.
• Design hybrid physics-ML architectures for the integrated loco-manipulation stack. Manipulation, locomotion, and the whole-body control coupling between them are not separable on legged platforms; sub-millimetre continuous-trajectory precision at the tool requires the whole-body controller to compensate for base motion in real time. Today on fixed bases; tomorrow on mobile platforms. The integration is the hard problem; you own its design.
• Own the cross-functional partnerships with hardware teams, domain experts, customer-facing assurance standards, and upstream / downstream teams. Drive a phased deployment strategy that builds production trust over time.
• Mentor and shape the team, guide junior and intermediate ICs across software, ML, robotics, and perception backgrounds; establish code-quality standards, review practices, and engineering norms; help identify and attract next hires. You write code throughout — this is a tech-lead role, not a step away from the work.

Who You Are

• Ph.D. or Master's degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on robot learning experience. You have shipped sim-to-real policies on real robots, across different tasks or platforms.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship. You have made architectural decisions on robot learning systems that others built on, and you have meaningfully shaped the development of more-junior engineers as a tech lead. This can be in academia (leading a lab subgroup, advising students) or industry.
• Deep sim-to-real expertise — domain randomisation, system identification, teacher-student distillation, sim-to-online fine-tuning. You can design a transfer strategy for a novel problem.
• Full-stack robot learning — fluent across simulation construction, policy training, data collection, real-world deployment, and failure diagnosis.
• Physics-informed ML or hybrid control experience — PINNs, neural ODEs, MPC with learned dynamics, process-model-conditioned generation, or similar.
• A defensible view on visual-reasoning-centric substrates for grounded spatial / physical reasoning.
• Push-back willingness — you can defend a non-obvious architectural commitment under pressure, and change your mind on evidence.
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++; production-quality code with reproducibility, testing, and maintainability discipline.
• Strong communication skills, able to convey complex technical concepts to a diverse audience.
• Demonstrated independent technical authority — you have set technical direction in a tech-lead capacity, leading a research subgroup, owning an architecture across multiple ICs' work, or making the architectural call on a high-profile project.

Strongly Preferred:

• Edge inference depth (TensorRT, ONNX, edge-class deployment).
• Loco-manipulation experience — locomotion, whole-body control, and manipulation on legged platforms (quadrupeds, humanoids). The coupling between the three is the hard problem; direct hands-on experience or a defensible architectural view both count.
• Precision manipulation or surgical robotics — sub-mm accuracy tasks.
• Flow-matching action-head design at depth — direct experience with the architectural pattern.
• Visual self-supervised representation learning experience on robot or 3D-vision tasks.
• Multi-skill workflow or hierarchical policy design — skill sequencing, failure detection, control mode transitions.
• Experience building ML capability from early stage — first or second ML engineer on a team, or built a research group's infrastructure from scratch.

Why You’ll Love Working 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 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!

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.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process or any part of the hiring process, please contact HR@path-robotics.com. We are committed to providing equal access and will work with qualified individuals to ensure a fair and accessible hiring experience. We will respond to your request within 48 hours.