Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure

1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Kodiak Robotics

Kodiak Robotics

Kodiak Robotics is an autonomous technology company focused on redefining the long-haul trucking industry. Their purpose-built autonomous solution, the Kodiak Driver, integrates seamlessly into any driving platform to provide reliable and efficient mov...

Road & Rail
51-250
Founded 2018
$320M raised

Description

  • Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development.
  • Improve testing, debugging, metrics, and evaluation workflows.
  • Expose actionable insights from logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data.
  • Build infrastructure that supports safety case development and test coverage analysis.
  • Improve internal libraries, developer workflows, and Planning observability.
  • Optimize the performance, maintainability, and reliability of Planning software.
  • Partner closely with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity.
  • Design reusable systems and abstractions used across the Planning team.
  • Lead infrastructure projects with broad team-wide impact.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems, ideally in autonomy or robotics.
  • Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflows.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
  • Experience with metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation.
  • Strong systems thinking and ability to understand complex engineering workflows.
  • Interest in autonomy, robotics, or planning systems.
  • Strong collaboration skills and interest in building tools that make other engineers more effective.
  • Experience building safety-case tooling or test coverage infrastructure is a strong plus.
  • Experience with large-scale autonomy metrics and evaluation systems is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $180,000 to $215,000 USD in the SF/Silicon Valley location.
  • Total compensation includes equity and bonus.
  • Competitive benefits package.
  • Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates.

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