4 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$180k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development.
- Improve testing, debugging, metrics, evaluation, observability, and developer workflows.
- Create actionable insights from logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data.
- Build infrastructure for safety-case development and test coverage analysis.
- Optimize the performance, maintainability, and reliability of Planning software.
- Partner with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity.
- Design reusable systems and abstractions used across the Planning team.
- Lead infrastructure projects with broad team-wide impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems, ideally involving autonomy or robotics.
- Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflows.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
- Experience with metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation.
- Strong systems-thinking, collaboration, and complex-workflow understanding skills.
- Interest in autonomy, robotics, or planning systems.
- Experience building safety-case tooling or test coverage infrastructure is a strong plus.
- Experience with large-scale autonomy metrics and evaluation systems is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Total compensation includes equity, bonus, and a competitive benefits package.
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.