4 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.
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.