Staff Software Engineer Behavior Planning
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 design, implement, validate, deploy, and analyze behavior-planning and motion-planning features. You will debug autonomy behavior using logs, simulation, metrics, and driving data; define success criteria; write production C++ software; participate in technical reviews; and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics, autonomous-vehicle, or related experience
- C++ software engineering skills
- Production or near-production autonomy-software experience
- Robotics or autonomy debugging using logs, metrics, and simulation
- Safety, comfort, and deployment-readiness judgment
- Collaboration and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and improve behavior-planning and motion-planning features
- Own planning projects from problem definition through deployment
- Debug autonomy behavior using logs, simulation, metrics, and real-world data
- Improve planning decisions across safety, comfort, progress, and operational constraints
- Collaborate across prediction, controls, perception, machine learning, simulation, systems, and safety
- Define success metrics and validation plans
- Write production-quality C++ software
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions
- Mentor junior and senior engineers
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