Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer
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 lead integration of sensors, compute, actuation, and vehicle systems for new platforms. You will plan builds, validate performance and reliability, coordinate integration events, maintain platform documentation, and resolve issues through systematic debugging and root-cause analysis.
Requirements
- Mechanical or Electrical Engineering degree
- 6+ years of experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive, or a related industry
- New platform or product integration
- Systems thinking
- Automotive electronics
- Ethernet
- CAN
- Python or MATLAB
- Linux
- Computer networking
- SolidWorks
- Technical documentation
- Cross-functional design and integration reviews
- Testing
- Root-cause analysis
Responsibilities
- Lead system-level integration of sensors, compute, actuation, and vehicle systems
- Drive architecture definition, build planning, bring-up, validation, and sign-off
- Develop and execute test plans for platform functionality, performance, and reliability
- Coordinate cross-functional build and integration events
- Provide Design-for-Manufacturing and Design-for-Test feedback
- Maintain drawings, schematics, BOMs, build instructions, and test reports
- Identify, triage, and resolve integration issues through debugging and root-cause analysis
- Define integration requirements and acceptance criteria
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