2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$180k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and integrate onboard navigation and pose-estimation algorithms.
- Optimize sensor fusion and pose estimation using IMU, camera, and lidar sensors.
- Develop visual and lidar odometry algorithms.
- Develop navigation metrics to evaluate onboard and offboard autonomous-trucking algorithms and systems.
- Evaluate sensor performance and optimize sensor selection.
- Verify sensor calibrations, settings, and uncertainty characterizations.
- Build maintainable, high-reliability software and infrastructure components.
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines and communicate designs through clear documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD with academic or industry experience building navigation, localization, and odometry systems.
- Strong proficiency in C++.
- Strong software engineering skills and experience building high-reliability deployed applications.
- Experience transforming raw GNSS, IMU, wheel-speed, or similar sensor data into a 6-DOF pose using approaches such as Kalman filtering or factor graphs.
- Experience with computer vision, visual odometry, and/or odometry from point clouds.
- Solid understanding of metrics, data analysis, and scientific evaluation.
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, ownership, communication, and system-level thinking skills.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans, plus legal, identity protection, disability, life, accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness coverage.
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and parental leave.
- Mountain View, California office with a dog-friendly environment, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
- 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.
- The role is office-based in Mountain View, California.
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.