Software Engineer Localization
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 develop and integrate navigation and pose-estimation algorithms, optimize sensor fusion and odometry, evaluate sensor performance, create performance metrics, and verify sensor calibration and uncertainty characterization.
Requirements
- Coursework or project experience in navigation, localization, robotics, or a related field
- C++ proficiency
- Foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering
- Experience transforming GNSS, IMU, wheel-speed, and related sensor data into pose estimates
- Experience writing design documentation
Responsibilities
- Develop and integrate onboard navigation and pose-estimation algorithms
- Optimize sensor fusion and pose estimation using IMU, camera, and lidar sensors
- Develop visual and lidar odometry algorithms
- Develop navigation metrics for algorithm and system performance
- Evaluate sensor performance and optimize sensor selection
- Verify sensor calibrations, settings, and uncertainty characterizations
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