Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our team and contribute to the design, architecture, implementation, and maintenance of our simulation capabilities. In this role, you will be responsible for owning the integration between our simulation platform and all critical components of our autonomy stack. You will collaborate with technical leads and subject matter experts to engineer innovative methods for testing and evaluating our algorithms, particularly in edge cases and rare events. Additionally, you will lead the development of new features aimed at enhancing the fidelity of our simulation results and implement novel evaluation metrics to measure the performance of our self-driving stack. Your responsibilities will also include writing maintainable, clear, and concise code and coordinating with external partners to drive new features and integrate them with our internal workflows.