Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Planning
Kodiak AI · Mountain View, CA
Roboticsonsitestaff$240k–$265k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own behavior and motion planning features end-to-end for driverless trucks.
- Improve how autonomy balances safety, comfort, progress and constraints.
- Debug real-world driving behavior using logs, simulation and metrics.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation including equity and annual bonuses
- Excellent medical, dental and vision plans
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays and generous parental leave
- Fidelity 401(k), free catered lunch and EV charging
Ideal candidate
Experienced autonomy engineer who loves owning planning behavior end-to-end and sweating safety-comfort tradeoffs. You thrive debugging complex real-world driving and collaborating across the stack to ship production software.
Requirements
- Experience in behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics or autonomous vehicles
- Strong software engineering skills, preferably in C++
- Experience building autonomy software in production or near-production environments
- Ability to debug complex autonomy behavior using logs, metrics and simulation
- Strong system-level judgment around safety, comfort and deployment readiness
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates
- hiring process
- Initial screening assisted by Endorsed AI tool, with final hiring decisions made by human recruiters
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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