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Kodiak AI, Inc.

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Staff Software Engineer, Mission Planning

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You will lead the design and development of mission planning, routing, and human-assisted autonomy for driverless trucks. You will establish the motion-planning roadmap, define metrics and interfaces, integrate driving logic, automate launches and landings, mentor engineers, and solve real-world routing and mission problems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and development of mission planning, routing, and human-assisted autonomy
  • Develop the architecture and long-term motion-planning roadmap
  • Identify metrics for product excellence
  • Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers
  • Integrate onboard and offboard driving logic
  • Collaborate with operations specialists to facilitate safe, efficient missions
  • Evaluate driver effectiveness
  • Automate and expedite truck launches and landings
  • Define interfaces, requirements, and system behavior with cross-functional partners
  • Solve route generation, mission update, responsive driving, real-time computing, and cloud-computing problems

Requirements

  • 6+ years of production-level robotics software development experience
  • Modern C++ proficiency
  • Expertise in motion planning, graph theory, distributed computing, and related domains
  • Experience delivering complex autonomous systems
  • Leadership in solving ambiguous, real-world challenges

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Annual bonuses
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Medical plan with infertility benefits
  • Legal services
  • Identity and fraud protection
  • Hospital indemnity insurance
  • Accident insurance
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Flexible PTO
  • 10 paid holidays
  • Parental leave
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Free catered lunch
  • Stocked kitchen
  • Free EV charging
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Headspace
  • Calm
  • One Medical
  • Gympass
  • Spring Health
  • Rula
  • 401(k)
  • Commuter benefits
  • FSA
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • HSA
  • Referral bonuses
  • Patent bonuses

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