Software Engineer Controls C++
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 implement control and actuation strategies for articulated trucks, develop and test safety-critical software, characterize vehicle behavior, create motion-prediction models, document requirements, and collaborate on robust vehicle-control architecture.
Requirements
- 2+ years developing production-level vehicular controls software
- Production-level C++ development experience
- Background in robotics, controls, and mathematics
- Experience developing, testing, and tuning controllers for autonomous robots
- Focus on vehicle safety
Responsibilities
- Implement control and actuation strategies
- Develop and test safety-critical software for articulated trucks
- Characterize braking, steering, and acceleration behavior
- Develop onboard and simulated motion-prediction models
- Specify requirements and document implementations
- Apply degraded-operation capabilities for fail-safe driving
- Collaborate on vehicle-control architecture
Benefits
- Equity
- Annual bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- 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
- Headspace
- Calm
- One Medical
- Gympass
- Spring Health
- Rula
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- HSA
- Referral bonuses
- Patent bonuses