Kodiak

Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Prediction- Planning

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2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$170k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own prediction improvements within the Planning team, including heuristic logic, learned model collaboration, model outputs, uncertainty, and failure modes.
  • Improve prediction-planning interfaces covering confidence, uncertainty, intent representation, and fallback behavior.
  • Collaborate on planning improvements for scenarios involving uncertain or changing actor intent.
  • Define prediction-quality metrics and evaluation frameworks tied to planning behavior.
  • Analyze prediction-related planning failures using logs, simulation, metrics, and scenario-based evaluation.
  • Lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with behavior prediction, trajectory prediction, actor intent modeling, or related autonomous vehicle prediction problems.
  • Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in C++.
  • Experience with planning systems and understanding of how prediction affects planning, safety, comfort, and system behavior.
  • Ability to analyze complex autonomy failures using logs, metrics, and simulation.
  • Strong collaboration skills across Perception, Planning, ML, Simulation, and Systems teams.
  • Strong system-level judgment regarding prediction uncertainty, safety, deployment, and heuristic, learned, and hybrid approaches.
  • Python proficiency is a plus.

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 benefits.
  • Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies.
  • Office located in Mountain View, California, with a dog-friendly environment, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
  • Wellbeing benefits including Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, and Rula.
  • Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, and HSA.
  • Referral and patent bonus programs.

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