Senior Autonomy Software Engineer

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 seeking a highly skilled Perception Engineer to join our Autonomy Software Engineering team. In this role, you will use your expertise in state estimation & multi object tracking to shape the perception stack as we scale, incorporating and developing state of the art algorithms and techniques. You’ll leverage advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and techniques to deploy and scale safe autonomous perception systems. If you're passionate about how robots perceive and understand the world at scale, this role is for you.

In this role, you will :

• Lead efforts to advance learned scene estimation solutions in the Kodiak Driver.
• Use principled approaches for fusing information from multiple modalities (camera, radar, lidar, thermal, and IMU) to improve perception performance.
• Improve multi-target tracking performance including track initiation, measurement to track association, and track state maintenance.
• Develop novel algorithms to incorporate noisy measurements to construct a solid foundational understanding of the world.
• Develop tooling, metrics, and visualization to advance sensor fusion performance.
• Embody innovation and collaboration. Think creatively and resourcefully to solve problems.

What you’ll bring :

What we offer :

The pay range listed below reflects the base salary in our SF / Silicon Valley location, across several internal levels. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors including : work location, experience, relevant training, education, skill level and performance during interview. Total compensation at Kodiak includes base pay, equity, bonus and a competitive benefits package

$180,000 - $220,000 USD

At Kodiak, we strive to build a diverse community working towards our common company goals in a safe and collaborative environment where harassment of any kind is strictly prohibited. Kodiak is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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