Senior Autonomy Engineer

Kodiak · Mountain View

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Company
Kodiak
Location
Mountain View
Salary
$190,000 — $230,000
Posted
April 1, 2026

About this job

This role demands deep technical expertise, 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 Autonomy Safety team is charged with an incredibly challenging task: how to make — and prove — that an autonomous truck is incredibly safe (fewer than one fatal collision per 10⁸ hours). There is no textbook for this problem. You will be part of a small, high-impact team working at the frontier of safety, leveraging existing methods and pioneering new ones when needed. What You'll Do: Write C++ to efficiently search high-dimensional failure spaces at scale Use first-principles analysis to develop requirements for safe perception,…

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