3 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.
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.