Senior Software Engineer Planning Infrastructure
Kodiak AI is an active public company providing AI-powered autonomous ground-vehicle technology, principally through the Kodiak Driver for commercial trucking, industrial trucking, and defense applications.
Funding history
About Kodiak AI, Inc.
Kodiak Driver combines AI-powered software and modular, vehicle-agnostic hardware to enable driverless vehicle operations. Kodiak commercializes the technology through a Driver-as-a-Service model and serves trucking, industrial, and defense customers.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build internal tools, libraries, workflows, metrics, and evaluation systems for planning software. You will improve testing, debugging, observability, performance, and reliability, analyze autonomy data, and lead reusable infrastructure projects with broad impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years of C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems experience
- Tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflow development
- Clean, maintainable, high-performance code
- Metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation
- Systems thinking
- Autonomy, robotics, or planning systems
- Collaboration
Responsibilities
- Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate planning development
- Improve testing, debugging, metrics, and evaluation workflows
- Expose insights from logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data
- Build infrastructure for safety-case development and test-coverage analysis
- Improve internal libraries, developer workflows, and planning observability
- Optimize planning software performance, maintainability, and reliability
- Identify engineering bottlenecks and improve development velocity
- Design reusable systems and abstractions
- Lead infrastructure projects with team-wide impact