Kodiak Robotics Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous 2024 Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build infrastructure tools and systems that support our Planning team to develop debug evaluate and deploy autonomy software faster and more safely.
You are part of the Planning team with a focus on understanding workflows and creating infrastructure that improves engineering velocity software quality system performance and test coverage. You will develop the internal tools libraries workflows metrics and evaluation systems that support behavior and motion planning development.
This is a great role for a strong generalist engineer who enjoys building systems that other engineers work with on a daily basis. This role is especially well-suited for someone who enjoys multiplying the effectiveness of other engineers and wants broad technical impact.
What Youll Do
Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development.
Improve testing debugging metrics and evaluation workflows.
Expose actionable insights from logs simulation and real-world autonomy data.
Build infrastructure that supports safety case development and test coverage analysis.
Improve internal libraries developer workflows and Planning observability.
Optimize performance maintainability and reliability of Planning software.
Partner closely with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity.
Design reusable systems and abstractions used across the Planning team.
Lead infrastructure projects with broad team-wide impact.
What Were Looking For
Strong software engineering background with 5 years experience with C performance optimization and large-scale software systems ideally with autonomy or robotics systems.
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 to build tools that make other engineers more effective.
Strong Plus
Experience building safety-case tooling or test coverage infrastructure.
Experience with large-scale autonomy metrics and evaluation systems.
The pay range listed below reflects the base salaryin our SF/Silicon Valley locationacross several internal levels. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors including: work location experience relevant training education skill level and performance during interview. Total compensation at Kodiak includes base pay equity bonus and a competitive benefits package
California Pay Range
$180000 - $215000 USD
At Kodiak we strive to build a diverse community working towards our common company goals in a safe and collaborative environment where harassment of any kind is strictly prohibited. Kodiak is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race ethnicity religion gender identity sexual orientation age disability or veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law.
In alignment with its business operations Kodiak adheres to all relevant statutes regulations and administrative prerequisites. Accordingly roles that carry more sensitive requirements may be limited to candidates that can satisfy additional scrutiny and eligibility for such positions may hinge on verification of a candidates residence U.S. person status and/or citizenship status. Should the position require and Kodiak determines that a candidates residence U.S. person status and/or citizenship status necessitate an export license bar the candidate from the position or otherwise fall under national security-related restrictions Kodiak will consider the candidate for alternative positions unaffected by such restrictions under terms and conditions set forth at Kodiaks sole discretion or as an alternative opt not to proceed with the candidates application. If applicable Kodiak may provide visa sponsorship for eligible candidates.
Kodiak Robotics Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector....
Kodiak Robotics Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous 2024 Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build infrastructure tools and systems that support our Planning team to develop debug evaluate and deploy autonomy software faster and more safely.
You are part of the Planning team with a focus on understanding workflows and creating infrastructure that improves engineering velocity software quality system performance and test coverage. You will develop the internal tools libraries workflows metrics and evaluation systems that support behavior and motion planning development.
This is a great role for a strong generalist engineer who enjoys building systems that other engineers work with on a daily basis. This role is especially well-suited for someone who enjoys multiplying the effectiveness of other engineers and wants broad technical impact.
What Youll Do
Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development.
Improve testing debugging metrics and evaluation workflows.
Expose actionable insights from logs simulation and real-world autonomy data.
Build infrastructure that supports safety case development and test coverage analysis.
Improve internal libraries developer workflows and Planning observability.
Optimize performance maintainability and reliability of Planning software.
Partner closely with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity.
Design reusable systems and abstractions used across the Planning team.
Lead infrastructure projects with broad team-wide impact.
What Were Looking For
Strong software engineering background with 5 years experience with C performance optimization and large-scale software systems ideally with autonomy or robotics systems.
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 to build tools that make other engineers more effective.
Strong Plus
Experience building safety-case tooling or test coverage infrastructure.
Experience with large-scale autonomy metrics and evaluation systems.
The pay range listed below reflects the base salaryin our SF/Silicon Valley locationacross several internal levels. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors including: work location experience relevant training education skill level and performance during interview. Total compensation at Kodiak includes base pay equity bonus and a competitive benefits package
California Pay Range
$180000 - $215000 USD
At Kodiak we strive to build a diverse community working towards our common company goals in a safe and collaborative environment where harassment of any kind is strictly prohibited. Kodiak is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race ethnicity religion gender identity sexual orientation age disability or veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law.
In alignment with its business operations Kodiak adheres to all relevant statutes regulations and administrative prerequisites. Accordingly roles that carry more sensitive requirements may be limited to candidates that can satisfy additional scrutiny and eligibility for such positions may hinge on verification of a candidates residence U.S. person status and/or citizenship status. Should the position require and Kodiak determines that a candidates residence U.S. person status and/or citizenship status necessitate an export license bar the candidate from the position or otherwise fall under national security-related restrictions Kodiak will consider the candidate for alternative positions unaffected by such restrictions under terms and conditions set forth at Kodiaks sole discretion or as an alternative opt not to proceed with the candidates application. If applicable Kodiak may provide visa sponsorship for eligible candidates.
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