Kodiak Robotics
Technical Lead, Multimodal Transformers
Mountain View, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$230k-$300kDetected 1 day ago
PythonSpringCode ReviewAWSPyTorchNLPIntellectual PropertySensorsResearchMentoring
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About the role
- Its Kodiak Driver is a vehicle-agnostic autonomous driving system that combines AI-powered software with modular hardware.
- Today it operates in long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense.
- In 2024, Kodiak launched commercial Driver-as-a-Service operations with no one in the cab, and plans to launch driverless long-haul service between Dallas and Houston by the end of 2026.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture roadmap for multimodal transformers that fuse camera, LiDAR, and radar into unified representations
- Drive research direction on cross-modal attention, token fusion strategies, and efficient multi-stream tokenization, and make the calls on what gets built
- Set the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions on scalable training pipelines
- Partner with perception, planning, and infrastructure leads to align model design with system-level latency and compute budgets
- Passion for building AI that reasons over the full breadth of sensory input to operate safely in the real world
- You will set technical direction for multimodal fusion at Kodiak, lead the workstream executing against it, and be accountable for the results landing on trucks.
- At Kodiak, we strive to build a diverse community working towards our common company goals in a safe and collaborative environment where harassment of any kind is strictly prohibited.
Requirements
- Expert proficiency in Python and PyTorch, including large-scale distributed training and mixed-precision optimization
Compensation
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
- California Pay Range
- $230,000 - $300,000 USD
Benefits
- Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance
- Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace through Cigna, Calm through Kaiser, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health through Cigna, Rula (mental health navigation)
- Commuter, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA
- Total compensation at Kodiak includes base pay, equity, bonus and a competitive benefits package
- Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors including: work location, experience, relevant training, education, skill level and performance during interview.
Company info
- By submitting your application, you acknowledge that your application may be processed by AI systems as part of the screening and selection process.
- Kodiak AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: KDK), founded in 2018, is a leader in Physical AI, developing driverless technology that powers machines that move.
- Kodiak has partnered with many of the biggest names in freight, including Bosch for scaled hardware production, AWS, and leading customers including Atlas Energy Solutions, IKEA, Bridgestone, Werner Enterprises, C.R. England, Roehl Transport, and General Dynamics Land Systems.
- We are developing GigaFusionNet, a large-scale multimodal transformer that learns rich, joint representations across camera, LiDAR, and radar through attention-based fusion.
- We are looking for a technical leader to own the architecture direction of this effort and grow the engineers building it.
- As part of the evaluation process, we provide Endorsed with job requirements and candidate-submitted applications.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employment regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Should the position require, and Kodiak determines that a candidate's residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status necessitate an export license, bar the candidate from the position, or otherwise fall under national security-rel
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