Hardware Quality Industrialization Engineer
Kodiak AI is a public autonomous-vehicle technology company whose Kodiak Driver combines AI software and modular hardware for driverless commercial trucking and public-sector ground-autonomy applications.
Funding history
About Kodiak AI, Inc.
Kodiak develops and commercializes the Kodiak Driver, a vehicle-agnostic autonomous-driving platform. Its driverless trucks are operating for paying customers, and it also serves public-sector applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build data-driven, repeatable quality processes with engineering, supply chain, operations, and manufacturing partners. You will evaluate suppliers, analyze field returns, lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions, establish testing criteria, own supply verticals, and ensure compliance and certification requirements are met.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of quality, supplier quality, or supplier industrialization experience
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, hardware, or a related field
- Experience in aerospace, automotive, or autonomous vehicles
- Supplier evaluation and management experience
- Statistical quality control analysis experience
- Experience with 8D, 5 Whys, and fishbone diagrams
Responsibilities
- Build data-driven, repeatable quality processes
- Evaluate new and existing suppliers
- Analyze field returns to identify design improvements
- Lead root cause analysis with internal stakeholders and external partners
- Own corrective actions and improvements
- Establish test parameters, pass/fail limits, and test strategy
- Own supply verticals by product type
- Ensure external partners meet compliance and certification requirements
Benefits
- Equity
- Annual bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Infertility benefits
- Legal services
- Identity and fraud protection
- Hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Dog-friendly office
- Free catered lunch
- Stocked kitchen
- Free EV charging
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Wellbeing benefits
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA, dependent care FSA, and HSA
- Referral and patent bonuses
Hiring Process
Application screening may be assisted by Endorsed AI; final hiring decisions are made by the human recruitment team.