Tech Lead Manager, Motion Planning
Kodiak AI · Mountain View, CA · San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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At a glance
Highlights
- Lead motion planning and prediction for driverless trucks on public roads.
- Own roadmap for behavior planning, trajectory generation and prediction.
- Shape autonomy performance across highways and unstructured environments.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation including equity and annual bonuses
- Medical, dental and vision plans including infertility benefits
- Legal services, identity protection and supplemental insurance
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays and parental leave
Ideal candidate
An experienced robotics leader who thrives on technical ownership and mentoring teams through ambiguity to deliver safe, driverless autonomy on public roads.
Requirements
- Experience managing or mentoring engineers, with record of growing and retaining strong teams
- 6+ years developing production-level robotics software
- Strong facility with modern C++ and ability to guide design and review code
- Expertise in motion planning including computational geometry, graph theory, numerical optimization or machine learning
- Track record of leading teams to deliver complex autonomous systems
- Leadership to guide team through ambiguous, real-world challenges
- visa sponsorship
- May provide visa sponsorship for eligible candidates
- hiring process
- Initial screening assisted by AI tool Endorsed, with final hiring 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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