Kodiak Robotics

Kodiak Robotics

Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure

Mountain View, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$215kDetected 19 days ago
C++RoboticsCollaboration

About the role

  • The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector.
  • This role is especially well-suited for someone who enjoys multiplying the effectiveness of other engineers and wants broad technical impact.

Responsibilities

  • Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development.
  • Optimize performance, maintainability, and reliability of Planning software.
  • Partner closely with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity.
  • Design reusable systems and abstractions used across the Planning team.
  • Lead infrastructure projects with broad team-wide impact.
  • Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflows.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background with 5+ years experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems, ideally with autonomy or robotics systems.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
  • Experience with metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation.
  • Strong systems thinking and ability to understand complex engineering workflows.
  • Experience with large-scale autonomy metrics and evaluation systems.

Skills

  • In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer.

Compensation

  • The pay range listed below reflects the base salary in our SF/Silicon Valley location, across several internal levels.

Benefits

  • Build infrastructure that supports safety case development and test coverage analysis.

Company info

  • What We're Looking For

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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