Senior Systems Engineer Fault Management
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.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop the autonomy fault-management system throughout the V-model lifecycle. You will define requirements and architecture, maintain verification artifacts, analyze hazards and risks, support degraded-operation strategies, and align implementation with system requirements.
Requirements
- Engineering or related technical degree
- 2+ years of experience in real-time safety-critical applications
- Fault management
- Diagnostics
- Safe-state behaviors
- Cross-functional engineering collaboration
- C/C++ code comprehension
- Systems Engineering V-model
- Written and verbal communication
Responsibilities
- Develop the next-generation autonomy fault-management system
- Execute systems and safety engineering across the V-model lifecycle
- Develop and maintain requirements, traceability, verification and validation plans, and evidence
- Define fault-management architecture and concepts of operations
- Generate evidence for the driverless safety case
- Analyze detection thresholds, hazard prioritization, and risk
- Conduct trade studies on fault coverage, safety, and operational performance
- Define strategies for degraded operation and system availability
- Align implementation with system requirements
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