Senior Software Engineer Planning Infrastructure
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 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