Kodiak

Software Engineer, Controls (C++)

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2 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.

Tech Stack

C++MATLABPython

Categories

EmbeddedRobotics
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