Functional Safety Software Engineer
Public autonomous-vehicle technology company providing the Kodiak Driver, an AI-powered, modular autonomy platform for driverless commercial trucking and public-sector ground applications.
Funding history
About Kodiak AI, Inc.
Kodiak AI commercializes driverless ground-autonomy technology. Its vehicle-agnostic Kodiak Driver combines AI software, modular hardware, SensorPods, remote support, and offboard services; it serves trucking, industrial, defense, and public-sector use cases.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop, review, and manage software safety work products for autonomous vehicles. You will specify safety requirements, assess designs and verification evidence, perform safety analyses, support hardware-software interfaces, and collaborate on ISO 26262 compliance assessments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a related engineering discipline, or a bachelor's degree with professional high-tech experience
- Experience with functional safety assessment and applying ISO 26262
- Experience with ISO 26262 Parts 4, 6, 8, and 9
- Experience with vehicle system- and software-level verification and validation
- Knowledge of software configuration management and software quality assurance
- Ability to prepare safety arguments and drive evidence development
Responsibilities
- Facilitate completion of software safety work products
- Participate in specifying software safety requirements
- Review software safety architectural, unit-design, and implementation work
- Develop or review software test plans, procedures, and verification reports
- Support system-level testing from a software-safety perspective
- Perform software safety analyses
- Support hardware-software interface development and derive safety measures
- Review and assess work products for ISO 26262 compliance
Benefits
- Equity
- Biannual bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Medical plan with infertility benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Parental leave
- Dog-friendly office
- Free catered lunch
- Stocked kitchen
- Free EV charging
- Long-term disability insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Headspace
- One Medical
- Gympass
- Spring Health
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- HSA
- Referral bonuses
- Patent bonuses