Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure
About The Position
Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Planning team. The role focuses on building infrastructure, tools, and systems to support the development, debugging, evaluation, and deployment of autonomous driving software. The engineer will work on improving engineering velocity, software quality, system performance, and test coverage by developing internal tools, libraries, workflows, metrics, and evaluation systems. This position is ideal for a generalist engineer who enjoys creating systems that enhance the productivity of other engineers and has a broad technical impact.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with 5+ years experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems, ideally with autonomy or robotics systems.
- Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflows.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
- Experience with metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation.
- Strong systems thinking and ability to understand complex engineering workflows.
- Interest in autonomy, robotics, or planning systems.
- Strong collaboration skills and interest to build tools that make other engineers more effective.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building safety-case tooling or test coverage infrastructure.
- Experience with large-scale autonomy metrics and evaluation systems.
Responsibilities
- Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development.
- Improve testing, debugging, metrics, and evaluation workflows.
- Expose actionable insights from logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data.
- Build infrastructure that supports safety case development and test coverage analysis.
- Improve internal libraries, developer workflows, and Planning observability.
- Optimize performance, maintainability, and reliability of Planning software.
- Partner closely with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity.
- Design reusable systems and abstractions used across the Planning team.
- Lead infrastructure projects with broad team-wide impact.
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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