Senior Autonomy Engineer, Perception
Kodiak•San Francisco, CA
•$180,000 - $235,000•Onsite
About The Position
Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Autonomy Perception Engineer to join their Perception Engineering team. This role involves using expertise in state estimation and multi-object tracking to advance the perception stack as the company scales. The engineer will incorporate and develop state-of-the-art algorithms and techniques, leveraging advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to deploy and scale safe autonomous perception systems. This position is ideal for someone passionate about how robots perceive and understand the world at scale.
Requirements
- BS or MS with at least 5 years industry experience, or PhD with at least 3 years of academic or industry experience, in building state estimation and sensor fusion systems.
- Domain Expertise in topics including sensor fusion, state estimation, Kalman filtering, particle filtering, multi-object tracking, deep learning, learned scene estimation, behavior prediction.
- Skilled in C++ with strong problem-solving skills.
- Strong software engineering skills and experience building high-reliability deployed applications.
- Solid understanding of metrics, data analysis, and scientific evaluation.
- A team player who takes ownership and works with the team to deliver exceptional results.
- Ability to build and iterate quickly, comfortable in defining and building lasting infrastructure components from scratch.
- Hands on, curious, flexible, and interested in new domains to expand horizons and provide a complete system-wide solution.
- Great communicator with experience writing clear, concise design documentation to gather feedback from across the team to find the best solution.
Responsibilities
- Lead efforts to advance learned scene estimation solutions in the Kodiak Driver.
- Use principled approaches for fusing information from multiple modalities (camera, radar, lidar, thermal, and IMU) to improve perception performance.
- Improve multi-target tracking performance including track initiation, measurement to track association, and track state maintenance.
- Develop novel algorithms to incorporate noisy measurements to construct a solid foundational understanding of the world.
- Develop tooling, metrics, and visualization to advance sensor fusion performance.
- Embody innovation and collaboration. Think creatively and resourcefully to solve problems.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
- Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Medical plan with infertility benefits
- MetLife Legal Services
- Identity & Fraud Protection
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- Generous parental leave policies
- Dog-friendly office
- Free catered lunch
- Fully stocked kitchen
- Free EV charging
- Long Term Disability
- Short Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, Rula (mental health navigation)
- Fidelity 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- HSA
- Various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.)
- Visa sponsorship for eligible candidates
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
