Kodiak

Senior Software Engineer, Controls (MATLAB)

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29 days 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.

Tech Stack

CC++MATLAB

Categories

EmbeddedRobotics
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