Jobs at Kodiak Robotics

Build tools, libraries, and infrastructure to accelerate Planning development for autonomous vehicles. Improve testing, debugging, metrics, simulation, and evaluation workflows; expose actionable insights from logs and real-world data. Lead infrastructure projects, optimize performance and maintainability, and partner with Planning engineers to increase engineering velocity and safety-case/test coverage.

The Creative Lead will elevate marketing output quality and speed, overseeing campaign development and guiding team execution while maintaining brand standards.

Manage and develop social media strategies, create content, engage with communities, collaborate cross-functionally, and analyze social media performance.

The Hardware Quality Industrialization Engineer will enhance quality processes, manage suppliers, analyze returns, and implement corrective actions in a growing manufacturing team.

The Senior Financial Analyst will support financial planning and analysis, build forecasting models, and provide insights for strategic initiatives across various departments.

Lead integration of learned models into the autonomous behavior planning stack. Collaborate with ML and autonomy teams to design, validate, monitor, and deploy learned planning components while ensuring safety, fallback strategies, debuggability, and production readiness. Mentor engineers and drive cross-functional technical designs using simulation, logs, and real-world data.

The role involves designing and debugging embedded software for autonomous vehicles, collaborating with hardware teams, and ensuring reliable operations of truck systems.

Build and automate large-scale ML data pipelines and tooling for autonomous trucking. Improve dataset curation, deduplication, labeling, evaluation, and metrics infrastructure. Collaborate with robotics, autonomy, and infra teams to support continuous learning, deployment, and scalable AI infrastructure for Kodiak's fleet.

Lead the design and execution of the Autonomy Fault Management System, ensuring safe operation through all stages of development while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer will lead system-level integration of autonomous vehicle components, manage full integration lifecycle, develop test plans, and ensure documentation and quality for new platform developments.

Build internal tools, libraries, workflows, metrics, and evaluation systems to accelerate behavior and motion planning development. Improve testing, debugging, observability, and safety-case infrastructure, partner with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks, and lead infrastructure projects that increase velocity, quality, and performance of autonomy software.

The Systems Engineer will design and execute Kodiak's Autonomy Fault Management System, addressing faults safely to enhance driverless vehicle deployment and performance.

Lead development of learned scene estimation and multi-sensor fusion for autonomous perception. Improve multi-target tracking, measurement association, and robust state estimation. Build algorithms to handle noisy measurements, create tooling/metrics/visualizations, and deliver high-reliability deployed software while collaborating across teams.

Design, test, and optimize perception sensor systems (lidar, radar, camera, ultrasonics) for autonomous trucks. Integrate sensors, analyze on-road data, run field tests, define field-of-view requirements, manage suppliers and contract manufacturers, and collaborate with perception teams to debug and improve sensor performance.

Lead motion planning capabilities for autonomous trucking, solving complex driving challenges, influencing architecture and improving systems performance, while mentoring engineers.

The Hardware Technical Program Manager will create roadmaps, oversee development, and ensure cross-functional team deliverables for autonomous vehicle hardware projects.

Lead execution of defense-focused technical programs, managing cross-functional coordination between engineering, product and operations to ensure timely delivery and compliance with government requirements.

Own and scale the IT helpdesk: build ITSM workflows, implement ticketing and asset tools, provide hands-on hardware/software/AV support, manage IAM and onboarding/offboarding, create knowledge base and automation, hire and mentor a 2-3 person support team.

Lead improvements to behavior and trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles. Own prediction work within Planning, collaborate with ML, Perception, Simulation, and Systems teams, refine prediction-planning interfaces, define metrics and evaluation frameworks, analyze failures via logs/simulation, and lead technical projects while mentoring junior engineers.

Run and improve large-scale simulation suites to validate autonomous trucking software. Design test plans and scenarios, execute and triage daily simulations, report results, collaborate with engineers to ensure realistic scenarios, and enhance simulation tooling and automation to accelerate safe software development.