2 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$185k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and improve behavior and motion planning features.
- Own planning projects from problem definition through deployment.
- Debug autonomy behavior using logs, simulation, metrics, and real-world data.
- Improve the autonomy system’s safety, comfort, progress, and operational decision-making.
- Define success metrics and validation plans for planning features.
- Write production-quality C++ software and participate in design, code, and architecture reviews.
- Collaborate with Prediction, Controls, Perception, ML, Simulation, Systems, and Safety teams.
- Lead and mentor junior and senior engineers, with direct-report management preferred.
Requirements
- Experience in behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related areas.
- Strong software engineering skills, preferably in C++.
- Experience building autonomy software in industrial, production, or near-production environments.
- Ability to debug complex robotics or autonomy behavior using logs, metrics, and simulation.
- Strong system-level judgment regarding safety, comfort, and deployment readiness.
- Leadership experience, ideally including management of direct reports.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife, including infertility benefits.
- Legal services, identity and fraud protection, hospital indemnity, accident, critical illness, disability, and life insurance benefits.
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, generous parental leave, and Fidelity 401(k).
- Wellbeing benefits including Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, and Rula.
- Mountain View, California office with dog-friendly facilities, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
- Commuter, FSA, dependent care FSA, HSA, referral bonus, and patent bonus programs.
About Kodiak
Kodiak builds an AI-powered autonomous driving stack for long-haul trucking and government programs. The company hauls freight daily across the southern United States using its technology and is leveraging the same software for U.S. Department of Defense autonomy projects. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kodiak announced in 2024 that it had delivered a driverless semi-truck to a customer.