Senior Software Engineer, Sensors & Embodied Intelligence
Path Robotics · Columbus, OH
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Jul 15, 2026
Columbus, OH
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on designing and building software for robotic sensing systems, including hardware abstraction layers for cameras, lasers, and 3D scanners, calibration pipelines, stereo vision, and real-time edge-based AI applications. The work spans architecture, embedded platform development, and integration of classical computer vision and deep learning methods into a broader robotic platform. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable owning full development lifecycles and mentoring others in a startup setting.
Senior level · 5+ years · Columbus, OH · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15 people in the Columbus, OH area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10–25
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $125,030 (middle half $102,209–$143,344).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
Path Robotics is headquartered in Columbus, OH; no explicit location is stated in the posting but the company is known to be based there. Remote status is assumed on-site given the daily free lunch perk and no remote language.
The degree requirement lists 'Bachelor's or Master's degree … or equivalent experience' — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, no formal degree is treated as a hard gate.
AWS is listed as 'preferred' within the requirements block ('AWS preferred'), so it is treated as a hard gate on cloud deployment capability but with AWS as the preferred option; Azure and GCP are listed as alternatives.
The NVIDIA suite (Omniverse, Isaac, JetPack, TensorRT, CUDA) and NVIDIA Jetson appear in the technical responsibilities narrative rather than a distinct required-qualifications section, so they are marked preferred. They describe the team's stack and expected work context rather than explicit candidate gates.
The alt SOC 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is noted as a runner-up given the heavy robotics/embedded/sensor focus, which sits at the edge of standard software developer classification; however, the primary day-to-day work is clearly software development.
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