30 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$240k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning software development.
- Improve testing, debugging, metrics, evaluation, observability, and developer workflows.
- Expose actionable insights from logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data.
- Build systems supporting safety-case development and test-coverage analysis.
- Optimize the performance, maintainability, and reliability of planning software.
- Design reusable libraries, systems, and abstractions for the Planning team.
- Partner with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity.
- Lead infrastructure projects with broad team-wide impact.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems experience.
- Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflows.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
- Experience with metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation.
- Strong systems thinking and ability to understand complex engineering workflows.
- Interest in autonomy, robotics, or planning systems.
- Strong collaboration skills and interest in building tools that improve other engineers’ effectiveness.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $240,000—$265,000 for the SF/Silicon Valley location.
- Total compensation includes equity, bonus, and a competitive benefits package.
- Kodiak is committed to a diverse, safe, collaborative, and equal-opportunity work environment.
- Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates, subject to applicable restrictions.
