4 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
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.