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. If you thrive on solving the hardest autonomy problems, we want you. This technically demanding role demands deep systems expertise, understanding of autonomy, mathematical rigor, and first-principles thinking to ensure safety in autonomous driving. You will own critical elements of our overall safety strategy to deliver safe, transformative autonomous trucking systems. The Systems Safety team is charged with an incredibly challenging task: how to make and prove that an autonomous truck is incredibly safe (<1 fatal collision per 10^8 hours)? There is no textbook for this sort of problem. You will be part of a small, high-impact team working to solve one of the most difficult problems in autonomous driving. You will be operating at the frontier of safety, working with talented teammates to leverage existing methods and to pioneer new methods when needed. Each teammate is charged with owning a significant part of the overall safety story, whether it’s functional safety, probabilistic risk assessment, reliability engineering, building and running hardware-in-the-loop test rigs, defining and leading our structured testing campaigns, updating our safety case and documentation, and much more. This role offers the opportunities for creating unparalleled impacts, overcoming career-defining technical challenges, and significant professional and technical growth.