4 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$240k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the integration of learned models into the behavior planning stack.
- Collaborate with ML teams on model improvements, requirements, evaluation, and deployment.
- Develop learned planning components and ML-driven planning signals for behavior classification, actor intent understanding, and data-driven decision-making.
- Design hybrid integration strategies combining learned components with heuristic planning systems.
- Define validation, fallback, monitoring, and safety criteria for learned planning components.
- Debug and analyze model behavior using simulation, logs, metrics, and real-world autonomy data.
- Partner with Perception, ML, Planning, Simulation, Systems, and Safety teams.
- Lead technical designs and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- Strong experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or a related autonomy domain.
- Deep technical background in behavior planning, decision-making, or motion planning.
- Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in C++; Python proficiency is a plus.
- Experience with heuristic or classical planning systems.
- Experience integrating or developing learned behavior policies, behavior classification, trajectory prediction, or actor intent models.
- Ability to reason about safety, system behavior, evaluation, and deployment risk.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and technical leadership skills.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $240,000–$265,000 USD for the SF/Silicon Valley location.
- Total compensation includes base pay, equity, bonus, and a competitive benefits package.
- Kodiak promotes a diverse, safe, collaborative, and equal-opportunity work environment.
- Visa sponsorship may be provided for eligible candidates, subject to applicable restrictions.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
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.