# Staff Software Engineer, Learned & Hybrid Behavior Planning at Kodiak

- Company: Kodiak
- What the company does: Backed by Battery, Lightspeed and CRV.
- Company website: http://www.kodiak.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kodiak/jobs/4294898009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kodiak-staff-software-engineer-learned-and-hybrid-behavior-planning/

## 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

Tags: Motion Planning