Build the Path Forward

At Path Robotics were 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 Youll 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 teams 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 Masters 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 groups infrastructure from scratch.

Why Youll 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 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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