Senior Onboard Infrastructure
About the role
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're looking for a Software Engineer focused on onboard vehicle systems to take a key role in designing and implementing our core vehicle integrations. You'll work across domains to bring together embedded devices, AI, and compute hardware into a highly reliable system, and you'll test and deploy autonomous trucks for real customers.
Responsibilities
- Own the integration between autonomy hardware and vehicle platforms for new products
- Work across domains to test vehicle actuation systems, be the first to make a new vehicle move
- Collaborate with experts across the company to build the Kodiak real-time operating system that powers our trucks
- Design and implement core infrastructure and libraries in modern C++
- Build highly reliable compute and network systems
- Gather metrics to analyze and optimize the performance of Kodiak's autonomous systems
Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years building software connected to