Senior Autonomy 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 safety requirements for perception, localization, prediction, planning, and control. You will identify failure modes, perform safety analyses, evaluate design trade-offs, lead validation campaigns, and create methods that help achieve autonomous-driving safety targets.
Requirements
- M.S. or Ph.D. in engineering, mathematics, statistics, or a related technical field
- Understanding of kinematics, dynamics, and system modeling
- Foundation in probability and statistics
- Strong C++ or Python programming skills
- Experience with sensor fusion, machine learning, computer vision, motion planning, or control systems
- Knowledge of safety analysis methodologies
- Knowledge of safety-critical standards
- Knowledge of redundancy and fault-tolerant system design
Responsibilities
- Write C++ code to search high-dimensional failure spaces
- Develop safety requirements for autonomy systems
- Identify failure modes and edge cases
- Perform hazard analysis, risk assessments, and fault tree analysis
- Analyze autonomy system design trade-offs
- Lead simulation, track, on-road, and hardware-in-the-loop testing campaigns
- Develop new safety methods
- Drive cross-functional safety practices
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 programs
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- HSA
- Referral and patent bonuses