Kodiak

Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Planning

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2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$240k - $265k/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, metrics, simulation, and real-world data.
  • Improve system decisions across 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 and 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.
  • Legal services, identity and fraud protection, hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance.
  • Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave.
  • Office located in Mountain View, California, with dog-friendly amenities, catered lunch, 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.
  • California/SF Silicon Valley position with the listed pay range applying to the location.

Tech Stack

Categories

Robotics
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About Kodiak

201-500 employees
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