Staff Autonomy 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 set technical strategy for onboard navigation and pose estimation. You will develop sensor-fusion and odometry approaches, define evaluation methods and navigation metrics, resolve complex localization problems, and optimize sensor performance, calibration, settings, and uncertainty characterization.
Requirements
- Academic or industry experience building navigation, localization, and odometry systems
- C++ expertise
- Software engineering experience building high-reliability deployed applications
- Experience transforming GNSS, IMU, wheel-speed, and other sensor data into 6-DOF pose
- Experience with Kalman filtering, factor graphs, or comparable state-estimation techniques
- Experience with computer vision, visual odometry, or point-cloud odometry
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving technical practices
- Experience writing design documentation
Responsibilities
- Set the technical strategy and architecture for onboard navigation and pose estimation
- Lead sensor-fusion and pose-estimation design across IMU, camera, and lidar sensors
- Drive visual and lidar odometry algorithm direction
- Evaluate build-versus-adopt tradeoffs for new techniques
- Define and promote navigation metrics and evaluation methodology
- Resolve complex and cross-cutting localization problems
- Evaluate sensor performance and optimize sensor selection
- Verify sensor calibration, settings, and uncertainty characterization
Benefits
- Equity
- Annual bonuses
- Medical, dental, and 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
- Headspace
- Calm
- One Medical
- Gympass
- Spring Health
- Rula
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- HSA
- Referral bonuses
- Patent bonuses