Staff Machine Learning Engineer Deployment
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
About the Role
You will design, train, optimize, and deploy onboard machine-learning models for autonomous driving. You will validate parity between onboard and offboard models, analyze driving data and edge cases, profile model and training performance, and integrate models into production autonomy systems.
Requirements
- Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or related technical degree or equivalent experience
- 6+ years deploying machine-learning or deep-learning systems in production
- Python and C++ proficiency
- PyTorch or TensorFlow experience
- Large-scale distributed training experience
- Machine-learning and optimization knowledge
- Software testing, debugging, and system-design skills
Responsibilities
- Design, train, and deploy onboard machine-learning models
- Optimize models through quantization, pruning, ONNX or TensorRT conversion, GPU kernels, and profiling
- Validate parity between onboard and offboard models using HIL
- Integrate ML models into production systems with cross-functional partners
- Analyze driving logs to identify edge cases and improve robustness and safety
- Profile training workloads and remove bottlenecks
- Develop scalable AI infrastructure for continuous learning and deployment
Benefits
- Equity and annual bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Infertility benefits
- Legal services
- Identity and fraud protection
- Hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Free catered lunch
- Free EV charging
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Wellbeing programs
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and HSA
- Referral and patent bonuses