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Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Planning

Kodiak AI · Mountain View, CA

Roboticsonsitestaff$240k–$265k
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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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