3 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$145k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement control and actuation strategies for autonomous articulated trucks.
- Develop and test reliable, safety-critical software for highway driving.
- Characterize vehicle braking, steering, and acceleration behavior.
- Develop onboard and simulated motion prediction models.
- Specify software requirements and document their implementation.
- Apply degraded-operations capabilities for fail-safe driving.
- Collaborate with Planning, Hardware, Systems, and Infrastructure teams on vehicle control architecture.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience developing production-level vehicular controls software.
- Production-level C++ software development experience.
- Strong background in robotics, controls, and mathematics.
- Experience developing, testing, and tuning controllers for autonomous robots, ideally trucks, cars, or flying vehicles.
- Focus on vehicle safety.
- Preferred experience includes robotic-system characterization, modeling and simulation; control theory and stability analysis; CAN or Ethernet interfacing; resource-constrained embedded systems and real-time operating systems; safety-critical software; formal verification; requirements writing; systems engineering; Python; and MATLAB/Simulink.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with equity and annual bonuses.
- Medical, dental, vision, legal, identity protection, hospital indemnity, accident, critical illness, disability, and life insurance benefits.
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and parental leave.
- Mountain View, California office with dog-friendly policies, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
- Wellbeing programs, Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, HSA, referral bonuses, and patent bonuses.
- Visa sponsorship may be provided for eligible candidates; certain roles may have residence, U.S. person, citizenship, export-license, or national-security restrictions.
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.