3 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$190k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Simulate articulated truck motion in response to steering, accelerator, and brake inputs.
- Model coupled tractor-and-trailer vehicle dynamics, including nonlinear effects and environmental influences.
- Analyze simulation fidelity by comparing simulated and real-world performance.
- Evaluate controller performance across multidimensional assessments.
- Build a safety case for driverless operation.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of controls development experience for automotive robots.
- Strong C++ programming skills.
- Interest in theoretical and empirical vehicle modeling.
- Facility with mechanical physics and enthusiasm for expanding vehicular simulation fidelity.
- Focus on vehicle safety.
- Experience simulating automotive robots, autonomous vehicles, statistical analysis, or automotive safety cases and standards is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
- Medical, dental, vision, legal, identity protection, disability, life, and other insurance benefits.
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and parental leave.
- Mountain View, California office with dog-friendly amenities, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and EV charging.
- Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, HSA, wellbeing programs, and incentive programs.
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.