Sr./Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Data
About The Position
Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is seeking Machine Learning Engineers focusing on data, pipelines, and tooling to help build the intelligence that powers the Kodiak Driver. Our ML teams work across perception, prediction, planning, and AI infrastructure to turn real-world driving data into models that enable safe and scalable autonomous trucking. In this role, you will develop the data pipeline which helps design machine learning systems that improve our vehicles’ ability to understand the world, predict the behavior of other road users, and make safe driving decisions. You will collaborate closely with robotics, autonomy, and infrastructure teams to continuously improve the performance of our autonomy stack using large-scale data from our growing fleet. This is a high-impact opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI systems operating in the real world, where every mile driven improves our models and brings autonomous trucking closer to global deployment.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, and 3+ years of practical experience working with ML teams.
- Proficiency in Python
- Proven ability to build scalable ELT pipelines and data models using SQL and modern data lakes using automated workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow / MetaFlow
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, debugging, and system design.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams to solve complex autonomy and robotics challenges.
Responsibilities
- Work with ML team to automate existing and new pipelines using AirFlow/Metaflow like orchestration frameworks.
- Utilize different auto generated / manually labeled signals to stratify datasets to dedup data and improve the information content of ML dataset.
- Improve and support the metrics dashboard and the underlying datastore to allow it to be scalable for growing volume of tests, performant and cost effective.
- Be the advocate for additional tooling to simplify and improve current processes to become more powerful and automated. This includes but is not limited to dataset curation and mining, evaluation and problem discovery, labelling and triage including utilizing LLM’s and offboard models.
- Contribute to the development of scalable AI infrastructure that supports continuous learning and deployment across Kodiak’s fleet.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
- Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits)
- MetLife Legal Services, Identity & Fraud Protection, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Accident Insurance, & Critical Illness Insurance
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies
- dog-friendly office
- free catered lunch
- a fully stocked kitchen
- free EV charging
- Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance
- Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace through Cigna, Calm through Kaiser, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health through Cigna, Rula (mental health navigation)
- Fidelity 401(k)
- Commuter, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA
- Various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
