3 months 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
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.