Jobs at Kodiak Robotics

Build tools, libraries, and infrastructure to accelerate Planning development for autonomous vehicles. Improve testing, debugging, metrics, simulation, and evaluation workflows; expose actionable insights from logs and real-world data. Lead infrastructure projects, optimize performance and maintainability, and partner with Planning engineers to increase engineering velocity and safety-case/test coverage.

Manage month-end, quarterly, and annual close processes under U.S. GAAP; improve reconciliations and audit readiness; oversee balance sheet reconciliations and PBC coordination; mentor and grow an accounting team; support manufacturing cost accounting and ERP-related activities.

Design, implement, and own behavior and motion planning features for autonomous trucks end-to-end. Debug using logs, simulation, and real-world data, define validation metrics, participate in design and code reviews, and mentor engineers while collaborating across the autonomy stack.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design algorithms for motion planning, improve AI behavior predictions, and enhance planning tools while collaborating across teams.

The Functional Safety Software Engineer will develop technical safety requirements, lead software safety specification, and perform analyses to comply with ISO 26262, focusing on autonomous vehicles.

Design and implement low-level embedded software for x86/ARM platforms in C/C++; collaborate with hardware and software teams to spec, test, and debug vehicle subsystems and sensors (camera, radar, lidar, IMU); work on network devices and time synchronization; perform hands-on hardware bring-up and on-vehicle debugging of buses like I2C, CAN, SPI, UART; ensure reliability and safety for autonomous trucking systems.

The Hardware Quality Industrialization Engineer will enhance quality processes, manage suppliers, analyze returns, and implement corrective actions in a growing manufacturing team.

Manage and develop social media strategies, create content, engage with communities, collaborate cross-functionally, and analyze social media performance.

Lead integration of learned models into the autonomous behavior planning stack. Collaborate with ML and autonomy teams to design, validate, monitor, and deploy learned planning components while ensuring safety, fallback strategies, debuggability, and production readiness. Mentor engineers and drive cross-functional technical designs using simulation, logs, and real-world data.

Develop and implement safety-critical vehicular motion control software in C++ for articulated autonomous trucks. Characterize vehicle dynamics, build motion prediction models, test and tune controllers, specify requirements, and collaborate across planning, hardware, systems, and infrastructure teams to deliver robust, fail-safe control systems.

Lead improvements to behavior and trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles. Own prediction work within Planning, collaborate with ML, Perception, Simulation, and Systems teams, refine prediction-planning interfaces, define metrics and evaluation frameworks, analyze failures via logs/simulation, and lead technical projects while mentoring junior engineers.

The Systems Engineer will design and execute Kodiak's Autonomy Fault Management System, addressing faults safely to enhance driverless vehicle deployment and performance.

Manage safety and regulatory compliance across operations, ensuring adherence to safety standards, leading incident response, and maintaining audit readiness for FMCSA and DOT compliance.

Lead the design and execution of the Autonomy Fault Management System, ensuring safe operation through all stages of development while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Own and scale the IT helpdesk: build ITSM workflows, implement ticketing and asset tools, provide hands-on hardware/software/AV support, manage IAM and onboarding/offboarding, create knowledge base and automation, hire and mentor a 2-3 person support team.

Lead development of learned scene estimation and multi-sensor fusion for autonomous perception. Improve multi-target tracking, measurement association, and robust state estimation. Build algorithms to handle noisy measurements, create tooling/metrics/visualizations, and deliver high-reliability deployed software while collaborating across teams.

Lead verification for production trucks by building data-driven verification processes, troubleshooting hardware and software failures, performing hands-on diagnostics and repairs, validating documentation, driving corrective actions, and collaborating with hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams through integration, validation, and sign-off.

Design, test, and optimize perception sensor systems (lidar, radar, camera, ultrasonics) for autonomous trucks. Integrate sensors, analyze on-road data, run field tests, define field-of-view requirements, manage suppliers and contract manufacturers, and collaborate with perception teams to debug and improve sensor performance.

Build and automate large-scale ML data pipelines and tooling for autonomous trucking. Improve dataset curation, deduplication, labeling, evaluation, and metrics infrastructure. Collaborate with robotics, autonomy, and infra teams to support continuous learning, deployment, and scalable AI infrastructure for Kodiak's fleet.

The Hardware Technical Program Manager will create roadmaps, oversee development, and ensure cross-functional team deliverables for autonomous vehicle hardware projects.