Staff Software Engineer, Mission Planning

Job description

This is an opportunity to collaborate with Product, Perception, Controls, and other cross-functional teams in order to improve overall autonomy performance. Customers interact with Kodiak trucks through mission assignments, making this a key engineering position to achieve product excellence.

The role spans a range of motion planning responsibilities, from graph traversal and routing, to mission planning and product development, to human-assisted autonomy and operations.

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.

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader…

Job responsibilities

Lead the design and development of mission planning, routing, and human-assisted autonomy for driverless operation on public roads
Develop the architecture and long-term roadmap for motion planning
Identify metrics to orient engineering teams toward product excellence
Study the product for opportunities to delight our customers
Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior and senior engineers, raising the bar for engineering excellence across the engineering organization
Integrate onboard and offboard driving logic
Collaborate with human-assisted autonomy and operations specialists to facilitate safe, efficient missions
Evaluate the effectiveness of the Kodiak Driver

Job requirements

Managed or mentored robotics engineers
Deployed software on autonomous vehicles
Built a safety case for driverless autonomy
Improved system performance (latency, throughput, reliability) in production environments
Built on simulation frameworks
Based decisions on data analysis

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