1 month ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$200k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the technical direction for learned scene estimation within the Kodiak Driver.
- Architect and implement sensor-fusion approaches across camera, radar, lidar, thermal, and IMU modalities.
- Improve multi-target tracking, including track initiation, measurement-to-track association, and track state maintenance.
- Develop algorithms that create robust world models from noisy and incomplete measurements.
- Build tooling, metrics, and visualization infrastructure for rigorous evaluation.
- Set technical standards through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.
- Partner across autonomy teams to translate perception performance into system-wide safety and reliability.
Requirements
- BS or MS with at least 8 years of industry experience, or a PhD with at least 5 years, building and deploying state estimation and sensor fusion systems.
- Deep expertise in sensor fusion, state estimation, Kalman filtering, particle filtering, and multi-object tracking.
- Strong experience with deep learning and learned scene estimation.
- Exceptional C++ skills and experience writing maintainable, production-quality code for high-reliability systems.
- Ability to define metrics, design rigorous evaluations, and make data-informed engineering decisions.
- Track record of technical leadership, driving ambiguous projects through shipment and mentoring teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including design documentation and cross-disciplinary alignment.
- Experience with behavior prediction, scene understanding, real-time perception, autonomous vehicles, robotics, or team-level technical roadmaps is beneficial.
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.
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and parental leave.
- Mountain View, California office with dog-friendly facilities, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and EV charging.
- Wellbeing benefits including Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, and Rula.
- Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, HSA, referral bonuses, and patent bonuses.
- Office-based role in Mountain View, California; the listed base salary applies to the SF/Silicon Valley location.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
