3 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$185k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and improve behavior planning and motion planning features.
- Own planning projects from problem definition through deployment.
- Debug autonomy behavior using logs, simulation, metrics, and real-world data.
- Improve the autonomy system’s balance of safety, comfort, progress, and operational constraints.
- Collaborate with Prediction, Controls, Perception, ML, Simulation, Systems, and Safety teams.
- Define success metrics and validation plans for planning features.
- Write production-quality C++ software.
- Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions.
- Mentor junior and senior engineers.
Requirements
- Experience in behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related areas.
- Strong software engineering skills, preferably in C++.
- Experience building autonomy software in industrial, production, or near-production environments.
- Ability to debug complex robotics or autonomy behavior using logs, metrics, and simulation.
- Strong system-level judgment around safety, comfort, and deployment readiness.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife, including infertility benefits.
- MetLife Legal Services, identity and fraud protection, hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance.
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies.
- Mountain View, California office with dog-friendly amenities, free catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
- Long-term disability, short-term disability, and life insurance.
- Wellbeing benefits including Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, and Rula.
- Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, and HSA.
- Referral bonuses, patent bonuses, and other incentive programs.
- Office-based role in Mountain View, California.
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.