Path Robotics

Path Robotics

Machine Learning Engineer, Robot Learning, Loco-Manipulation

Columbus, Ohio

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
PythonMachine LearningPyTorchData EngineeringRoboticsMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringResearchCommunication

About the role

  • Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together.
  • 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.
  • This is a founding role; you are designing the training infrastructure, data pipelines, simulation environments, model architectures, and deployment workflows - not inheriting them.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Multi-modal perception, scene understanding, and learned action generation work in tight coordination on the stack you help create.
  • Build the Path Forward
  • 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.
  • Experience building ML pipelines or infrastructure in a team setting.
  • the whole-body controller compensates in real time to maintain accuracy at the tool.

Requirements

  • Ph.D. or Master's degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field - or equivalent experience.
  • You have trained policies and deployed them on real robot hardware - not just in simulation.
  • Implementation experience with diffusion-based or flow-matching action policies for robots, and with action chunking.
  • Practical experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or equivalent.
  • Comfort with physical robots - debugging, iterating, deploying.

Nice to have

  • Strongly Preferred:

Benefits

  • Visual self-supervised representation learning experience on robot or 3D-vision tasks.
  • 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
  • Build the team's robot-learning stack from the ground up.
  • Behavioural cloning, diffusion- and flow-matching action generation, reinforcement-learning fine-tuning.
  • 2+ years of hands-on robot learning experience.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Company info

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • At Path Robotics, we're building the future of embodied intelligence.
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