Senior Software Engineer Controls Simulation
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 high-fidelity simulations of articulated truck dynamics and control behavior. You will model vehicle and environmental effects, compare simulations with on-road results, evaluate controllers, and help build evidence supporting safe driverless operation.
Requirements
- 4+ years of controls development experience for automotive robots
- C++ programming
- Vehicle modeling
- Mechanical physics
- Vehicle simulation
- Vehicle safety
Responsibilities
- Simulate articulated truck motion in response to steering, accelerator, and brake inputs
- Model vehicular motion and coupled tractor-trailer interactions
- Incorporate environmental effects including incline, road bank, rolling resistance, and wind
- Characterize nonlinear effects including gear shifting and electronic stability control
- Analyze simulation fidelity against real-world performance
- Evaluate controller performance across multidimensional assessments
- Build a safety case for driverless operation
Benefits
- Equity
- Annual bonuses
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Infertility benefits
- Legal services
- Identity and fraud protection
- Hospital indemnity insurance
- Accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Dog-friendly office
- Free catered lunch
- Stocked kitchen
- Free EV charging
- Long-term disability insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Wellbeing benefits
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- HSA
- Referral bonuses
- Patent bonuses