3 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$190k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement feedback, control, and actuation strategies using established and novel techniques.
- Architect, develop, and test reliable, redundant, safety-critical software controlling autonomous trucks.
- Characterize steering, braking, throttle, engine management, and vehicle dynamics to create models for motion planning, simulation, and controls.
- Develop solutions for redundant actuation, degraded operation, and fail-safe control.
- Collaborate with hardware, embedded systems, and systems engineering teams on vehicle control architecture.
- Create requirements, implement features, plan testing, and document results.
Requirements
- Production-level software development experience with MATLAB and Simulink.
- Experience generating embedded C or C++ code from MATLAB and Simulink.
- Experience developing, testing, and tuning controllers for mobile autonomous robots, preferably trucks, cars, or aircraft.
- Experience with system identification, modeling, simulation, and characterization of systems with complex dynamics.
- Strong theoretical and practical experience in controls, system modeling, and redundant architectures.
- Demonstrated focus on end-to-end vehicle safety.
- Preferred experience includes production C++, hardware-in-the-loop testing, safety-critical software, CAN or Ethernet interfacing, resource-constrained embedded systems with a real-time operating system, formal verification, systems engineering, and ISO 26262.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans, including infertility benefits, plus legal, identity protection, hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance.
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, generous parental leave, disability insurance, and life insurance.
- Wellbeing benefits including Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, and Rula.
- Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, HSA, referral bonuses, and patent bonuses.
- Mountain View, California office with a dog-friendly workplace, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
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.