Kodiak

Senior Software Engineer, Localization

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17 days 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.

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About Kodiak

201-500 employees
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