Jobs at Kodiak Robotics

The Embedded Software Engineer will collaborate with hardware and software teams to design low-level devices interfacing with truck systems. Responsibilities include ensuring reliable operations of large robots, developing cutting-edge functionality, and contributing to hardware specifications for test coverage and fault detection.

Staff Autonomy Perception Engineer at Kodiak Robotics in Mountain View, California. This role involves defining and leading technical direction for learned scene estimation, architecting and implementing principled approaches for fusing information across multiple sensor modalities (camera, radar, lidar, thermal, IMU), and leveraging advanced AI models for perception systems.

Senior Autonomy Engineer at Kodiak Robotics focused on safety in autonomous driving. This role involves owning critical elements of the safety strategy and working on the frontier of autonomous trucking safety. Responsibilities include writing C++ to search high-dimensional failure spaces.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Controls with a focus on MATLAB. This role involves designing and implementing feedback, control, and actuation strategies for safety-critical motion control within autonomous ground transportation.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build infrastructure, tools, and systems for their Planning team. The role focuses on improving engineering velocity, software quality, system performance, and test coverage by developing internal tools, libraries, workflows, and evaluation systems for behavior and motion planning.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Localization. This role focuses on developing and integrating onboard navigation and pose estimation algorithms, optimizing sensor fusion using IMU, camera, and lidar, and developing visual and lidar odometry algorithms for autonomous trucking.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Assisted Autonomy. This individual contributor role requires end-to-end product ownership, focusing on strategy, vision, and execution for a solution that allows remote human control of trucks in specific scenarios. The role involves both software and hardware aspects.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Mechanical Harness Engineer in Mountain View, CA. This role involves designing and validating electrical wire harnesses for autonomous vehicles using CAD software. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability and safety.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Software Engineer, Controls (C++) to join their team in Mountain View, California. This role focuses on vehicular motion control, including dynamic control laws, safety limits, monitoring, feedback, and state management. The engineer will develop expertise in control theory, platform characterization, and software engineering within the autonomous trucking domain.

Electrical Engineering Technician at Kodiak Robotics in Mountain View, California. This role involves building and testing critical hardware products for autonomous trucks, including harness assemblies, quality inspections, prototype test setups, and electrical component testing. The technician will also perform soldering, mechanical assemblies, and manage BOMs and lab inventories.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking experienced Class A commercial drivers for their Midland/Odessa operations. This role involves deploying autonomous trucking technology in real-world conditions. Candidates must possess a Class A CDL with a clean driving record and at least 3 years of verifiable Class A experience.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Controls to design and implement feedback, control, and actuation strategies for safety-critical autonomous trucking systems. The role involves architecting, developing, and testing reliable software for vehicle control, characterizing vehicle dynamics, and addressing challenges in redundant actuation and fail-safe control.

Functional Safety Software Engineer at Kodiak Robotics responsible for developing and managing safety cases for their autonomous vehicle system. This role involves defining technical and software safety requirements and participating in software safety architectural design, based on systems engineering, ISO26262, and SOTIF principles.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a DevOps Engineer - Infrastructure in Mountain View, CA. This role involves being a technical escalation point for global end users and executives, diagnosing and resolving issues across various operating systems and infrastructure. The position requires a mix of hands-on support and collaboration on infrastructure-as-code projects.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Behavior & Motion Planning team. This role involves designing, implementing, and improving autonomous driving planning systems, owning features end-to-end, and collaborating with various autonomy teams to ensure safe and effective decision-making in complex scenarios.

Research Scientist in Physical AI at Kodiak Robotics, focused on designing and developing large-scale generative world models. This role involves creating AI that learns physics to predict physically consistent futures from sensor data, enabling scalable training and validation for autonomous trucks.

Kodiak Robotics is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on deployment. This role involves designing and deploying ML systems to enhance vehicle perception, prediction, and decision-making for autonomous trucking. The engineer will collaborate with robotics and autonomy teams, utilizing large-scale fleet data to improve AI performance.

Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Prediction- Planning at Kodiak Robotics. This role focuses on improving the autonomous driving system's ability to predict the behavior, intent, and future motion of other road users. The engineer will work on prediction models, their integration with the planning system, and defining metrics for evaluation.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Planning to design, implement, and improve behavior and motion planning systems for autonomous driving. This role involves owning planning features end-to-end, debugging autonomy behavior, and collaborating with various cross-functional teams to ensure safe and effective decision-making in complex driving scenarios.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Director of Supply Chain to manage and scale their end-to-end supply chain operations. This leadership role involves planning, procurement, inventory management, contract manufacturing, warehouse operations, and financial compliance. The director will partner with the Partnership team and establish a robust supply chain control environment.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the development of Level 4 autonomous trucking solutions. This role involves managing the full product lifecycle, from needs identification to feature implementation, and requires technical depth in autonomous systems, product sensibility, business acumen, and cross-functional leadership.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead their Level 4 autonomous trucking platform. This senior individual contributor role involves defining product strategy and vision, owning product areas end-to-end, and influencing organizational direction for scaled commercialization.

Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer - Model Training at Kodiak Robotics. This role focuses on designing and optimizing high-throughput data loading and streaming systems for multimodal sensor data to keep GPUs saturated during model training. The engineer will build and optimize distributed training infrastructure across multi-node GPU clusters, applying various parallelism techniques.

Vehicle Electrical Integration Technician at Kodiak Robotics. This role involves troubleshooting and debugging electrical and software systems in the field, developing corrective actions for failures, and performing hands-on repairs and maintenance to improve fleet uptime.

Software Engineer, UI Tools Infrastructure at Kodiak Robotics in Mountain View, CA. This role involves developing, supporting, maintaining, and evolving 2D and 3D visualization tools for autonomous vehicle development and testing. The engineer will build interfaces using ReactJS, TypeScript, and Three.js, and develop backend services and APIs.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Product Manager to define and drive the strategic direction of their Level 4 autonomous trucking platform, focusing on the hardware stack and customer deployment. This role involves setting the product vision, shaping the technical roadmap, and owning the long-term product strategy for the Kodiak Driver hardware ecosystem.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking an Engineering Technician to build and maintain experimental and operational vehicles. This role involves being a core member of the engineering team, creating prototype builds of autonomous technology, generating work instructions, performing quality inspections, and organizing test setups.

Vehicle Integration Technician at Kodiak Robotics responsible for building, maintaining, and troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and software systems on autonomous vehicles. This role involves hands-on diagnosis, repair, and root-cause analysis to improve fleet uptime and works directly with engineers to enhance documentation and build processes.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer in Los Angeles, CA. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, functionality, and maintainability of their commercial autonomous fleet. Responsibilities include diagnosing and repairing hardware/system issues, creating documentation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Technical Lead for Multimodal Transformers at Kodiak Robotics. This senior individual contributor role involves owning the architecture roadmap for multimodal transformers that fuse camera, LiDAR, and radar data. The lead will drive research direction, lead projects end-to-end from problem framing to production deployment, and be accountable for results landing on trucks.

Finance Manager at Kodiak Robotics responsible for building the financial backbone of the business. This role supports FP&A, investor relations, corporate development, strategy, and business operations. Initially an individual contributor, it is expected to evolve into a team leadership role.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Harness Engineering Manager to lead harness architecture and strategy for their autonomous vehicle platform. This hands-on role involves owning the technical direction for harness design across high speed, low voltage, and high power systems, setting standards, and managing supplier relationships.

Data Engineering Intern at Kodiak Robotics in Mountain View, California. This role involves optimizing and maintaining data stores like AuroraDB and ElasticSearch, designing and building data pipelines for data cleanliness and reliability, and evaluating dashboarding frameworks for reporting.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking an IT Systems Engineer in Mountain View, CA. This role involves being the technical escalation point for global end-users and executives, diagnosing and resolving issues across various systems and devices. The position also includes collaborating on infrastructure-as-code projects and automating IT processes.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Electrical Harness Engineer in Mountain View, CA. This role involves product-level design and validation of electrical wire harnesses and subassemblies for autonomous vehicles. Responsibilities include designing schematics, diagrams, manufacturing processes, and system interconnects, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer specializing in FEA Analysis & Test. This role involves performing assembly-level mechanical FEA simulations using ANSYS, including non-linear static and dynamic analyses. The engineer will identify failure modes, provide design guidance, create analysis reports, and correlate FEA models with test data.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer to lead system-level integration of autonomous vehicle platforms. This role involves driving the full integration lifecycle from architecture definition through validation and deployment, requiring close collaboration with hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Autonomy Software Engineer for their Calibration, Localization and Mapping (CLAM) team. This technical leader will set the strategy and architecture for onboard navigation and pose estimation systems, focusing on sensor fusion and odometry algorithms using IMU, camera, and lidar data.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking an experienced Autonomous Vehicle Test Specialist to test their AI-powered autonomous trucking technology. This role involves completing driving reports, coordinating testing, troubleshooting hardware and software, and monitoring AV systems for safe operations. The position requires shift flexibility and is based at their Lancaster, TX facility.

Manufacturing Test Software Engineer with production experience in manufacturing environments to join the Manufacturing team at Kodiak Robotics. This role will focus on automating various tests, improving test coverage, scaling test capacity, and integrating test systems with MES/PLM systems for autonomous vehicle systems.

Product Strategy & Operations Associate at Kodiak Robotics in Mountain View, CA. This role involves structured problem-solving and an operations mindset to shape how autonomous trucks are built, deployed, and scaled. The associate will work at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and Operations teams, driving analyses and recommendations through to decisions.

Operations Lead, Command Center at Kodiak Robotics is responsible for coordinating live autonomous and human-assisted trucking operations. This role ensures uninterrupted service delivery and proactive customer communication by working with Operations Specialists, remote operators, and On-Site Support teams. The lead will act as a subject matter expert in Command Center workflows, monitoring tools, triage logic, playback analysis, and mission dynamics, while also identifying and driving process improvements.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Head of Hardware TPM to lead program management for their hardware organization, including sensor systems, compute, and vehicle platforms. This leadership role involves owning the hardware program roadmap, managing a team of 3 TPMs, and collaborating with various engineering and operations teams to ensure successful execution from concept to fleet deployment.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Engineer for their Calibration, Localization and Mapping (CLAM) team. This role involves setting technical strategy and architecture for onboard navigation and pose estimation systems, leading the design of sensor fusion approaches, and driving the direction of visual and lidar odometry algorithms.

Senior Onboard Infrastructure Engineer at Kodiak Robotics in Mountain View, California. This role involves designing and implementing core vehicle integrations, working with embedded devices, AI, and compute hardware to create reliable systems. Responsibilities include testing vehicle actuation systems and collaborating on the real-time operating system for autonomous trucks.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Vehicle Manufacturing Engineer in Mountain View, California. This role will act as a technical leader in the Manufacturing group, focusing on launching DFM and best practices. Responsibilities include leading electromechanical manufacturing for ruggedized compute rack assemblies, automotive harnessing, and electromechanical assemblies, as well as coordinating with supply chain and commercial teams.

Safety Driver, Commercial at Kodiak Robotics operates autonomous-enabled commercial trucks on real-world freight routes. This role focuses on live commercial operations, ensuring safety, professionalism, and reliability while delivering freight for commercial partners.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking experienced Class A CDL Drivers for their Lancaster operations as Assisted Autonomy Drivers. In this role, you will remotely control self-driving trucks in specific low-speed situations, blending remote support with onboard autonomy to ensure safety and flexibility.

Senior Product Manager at Kodiak Robotics responsible for leading the development of software solutions for Command & Field Operations teams and customers. This role involves managing the full product lifecycle, from user research to deployment, to enable efficient and safe autonomous vehicle operations.

Kodiak Robotics is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Mission Planning. This role will lead the design and development of mission planning, routing, and human-assisted autonomy for driverless trucks, influencing the entire motion planning stack.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Vice President of Commercialization to lead their commercial engine. This executive role involves developing and executing go-to-market strategies, building partnerships, and linking customers, product, and operations to ensure a sustainable and profitable business.

Hardware Technical Program Manager at Kodiak Robotics in Mountain View, CA. This role involves creating technical execution roadmaps, managing hardware development and integration, and tracking build progress to meet program objectives.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Hardware Quality Industrialization Engineer to join their growing manufacturing team. This role involves designing and building quality processes, evaluating suppliers, analyzing field returns for design improvements, and driving root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Controls team, focusing on simulation. This role involves deep mathematical modeling of linear and nonlinear vehicle dynamics to ensure high fidelity between simulation results and on-road data.

Hardware Quality Industrialization Engineer at Kodiak Robotics. This role involves designing and building a quality team from the ground up, focusing on establishing data-driven quality processes with internal teams and external manufacturing partners. Responsibilities include supplier evaluation, field return analysis, and driving root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Class A CDL Driver needed for Kodiak Robotics' Midland/Odessa operations to assist in deploying autonomous technology. This role involves working with partners to improve and integrate AI-powered trucking technology in real-world conditions.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to integrate learned models into their autonomous driving behavior planning stack. This role involves collaborating with ML engineers, designing integration strategies, defining safety criteria, and debugging model behavior using various data sources.

Kodiak Robotics is seeking a Staff Hardware Electrical Engineer in Mountain View, CA. This role involves product-level design and validation of electrical PCBs and subsystems for autonomous vehicles. Responsibilities include schematic and layout design, risk mitigation, documentation, and hands-on PCB debug and bring-up.