Kodiak

Staff Software Engineer, Controls

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2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$190k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement feedback, control, and actuation strategies using established and novel techniques.
  • Architect, develop, and test reliable, redundant, safety-critical software controlling autonomous trucks.
  • Characterize vehicle dynamics involving steering, braking, throttle, and engine management for motion planning, simulation, and controls.
  • Develop solutions for redundant actuation, degraded operation, and fail-safe control.
  • Collaborate with hardware, motion planning, and systems engineering teams on vehicle control architecture, requirements, test plans, documentation, and integration testing.

Requirements

  • Strong background in robotics, controls, optimization, and mathematics, with an MS, PhD, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience developing, testing, and tuning controllers for mobile autonomous robots, ideally trucks, cars, or flying vehicles.
  • Experience with system identification, modeling, simulation, or characterization of systems with complex dynamics.
  • Strong theoretical and practical experience in controls, system modeling, and/or redundant architectures.
  • Focus on end-to-end vehicle safety.
  • Production-level software development experience in C or C++.
  • Preferred experience includes safety-critical software, low-level CAN or Ethernet drivers, resource-constrained embedded systems with a real-time operating system, formal verification, requirements and systems engineering processes, and Python, Matlab/Simulink, or related simulation and analysis tools.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with equity and biannual bonuses.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Anthem, and Guardian, including infertility benefits.
  • Flexible PTO and generous parental leave.
  • Office-based role in Mountain View, California, with a dog-friendly office, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
  • Long-term disability, short-term disability, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, HSA, referral bonuses, and patent bonuses.

Tech Stack

CC++MATLABPython

Categories

EmbeddedRobotics
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