Senior Software Engineer, Behavior & Motion Planning
Kodiak AI · Mountain View, CA · San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Roboticsonsitesenior$185k–$245k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own behavior and motion planning features end-to-end for driverless trucks.
- Help launch driverless long-haul service between Dallas and Houston.
- Improve safe, comfortable decisions in complex real-world driving scenarios.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
- Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave
- Dog-friendly Mountain View office with free catered lunch and EV charging
- Fidelity 401(k), FSA, HSA and commuter benefits
- Wellbeing benefits including Headspace, Calm, One Medical and Gympass
Ideal candidate
Autonomy engineer who loves owning planning behavior end-to-end and sweating safety-comfort tradeoffs. Collaborative systems thinker who enjoys debugging real-world driving and mentoring others across the stack.
Requirements
- Experience in behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related areas
- Strong software engineering skills, preferably in C++
- Experience building autonomy software in industrial, production, or near-production environments
- Ability to debug complex robotics or autonomy behavior using logs, metrics, and simulation
- Strong system-level judgment around safety, comfort, and deployment readiness
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- visa sponsorship
- May provide visa sponsorship for eligible candidates
- hiring process
- Initial screening assisted by Endorsed AI tool, with final decisions made by human recruitment team
Lab profile
About Kodiak AI
Develops vehicle-agnostic autonomous driving system for long-haul trucking, industrial, and defense.
What they build
- Kodiak Driver
- Driver-as-a-Service
Known for
- Vehicle-agnostic autonomous driving system
- AI-powered software with modular hardware
- Driverless commercial operations
- Operates in long-haul, industrial and defense
Key facts
- Founded in 2018
- Publicly traded (Nasdaq: KDK)
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