Staff Software Engineer, Controls
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, and test feedback, control, and actuation strategies for fully loaded autonomous trucks. You will characterize vehicle systems, develop models for planning and simulation, address redundant and fail-safe operation, and produce requirements, test plans, documentation, and integrated testing.
Requirements
- Background in robotics, controls, optimization, and mathematics
- Experience developing, testing, and tuning controllers for mobile autonomous robots
- Experience with system identification, modeling, simulation, or complex-dynamics characterization
- Theoretical and practical experience in controls, system modeling, or redundant architectures
- Focus on end-to-end vehicle safety
- Production-level C or C++ development experience
Responsibilities
- Design and implement feedback, control, and actuation strategies
- Architect, develop, and test reliable, redundant, safety-critical vehicle-control software
- Characterize steering, braking, throttle, engine-management, and vehicle-dynamics systems
- Develop models for motion planning, simulation, and controls
- Solve problems in redundant actuation, degraded operation, and fail-safe control
- Create requirements, test plans, test documentation, and integrated testing
Benefits
- Equity
- Biannual bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Medical plan with infertility benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Parental leave
- Dog-friendly office
- Free catered lunch
- Stocked kitchen
- Free EV charging
- Long-term disability insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Headspace
- One Medical
- Gympass
- Spring Health
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- HSA
- Referral bonuses
- Patent bonuses