# Technical Lead, Multimodal Transformers 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: 2026-08-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kodiak/jobs/4363440009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kodiak-technical-lead-multimodal-transformers/

## About the role

Kodiak's autonomy stack is built on AI that fuses diverse sensor streams into a unified, actionable understanding of the world. We are developing GigaFusionNet, a large-scale multimodal transformer that learns rich, joint representations across camera, LiDAR, and radar through attention-based fusion. We are looking for a technical leader to own the architecture direction of this effort and grow the engineers building it.

## What they're looking for

- Own the architecture roadmap for multimodal transformers that fuse camera, LiDAR, and radar into unified representations
- Lead the project end to end: problem framing, experiment design, implementation, and production deployment
- Drive research direction on cross-modal attention, token fusion strategies, and efficient multi-stream tokenization, and make the calls on what gets built
- Set the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions on scalable training pipelines
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and raise the level of research execution across the org
- Define the pretraining strategy, including self-supervised and contrastive objectives that learn transferable multimodal representations

Tags: AI & Machine Learning