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About the role
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help shape how learned models are integrated into behavior planning for autonomous driving. In this role, you will sit at the intersection of Planning and Machine Learning, working closely with ML engineers and autonomy teams to bring learned components into a production autonomy stack.
What they're looking for
- Strong experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or a related autonomy domain
- Deep technical background in behavior planning, decision-making, or motion planning
- Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in C++. Python proficiency is a plus
- Experience working with heuristic or classical planning systems
- Experience integrating or developing learned behavior policies, behavior classification, trajectory prediction, or actor intent models
- Ability to reason about safety, system behavior, evaluation, and deployment risk
More about this role
Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help shape how learned models are integrated into behavior planning for autonomous driving. In this role, you will sit at the intersection of Planning and Machine Learning, working closely with ML engineers and autonomy teams to bring learned components into a production autonomy stack.
This is a high-impact role for someone who understands both the practical constraints of real-world planning systems and the opportunities enabled by modern learned models....
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