Kodiak

Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure

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2 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.

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