Staff Software Engineer, Mission Planning

Kodiak · Mountain View

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Company
Kodiak
Location
Mountain View
Salary
$200,000 — $250,000
Posted
March 13, 2026

About this job

Kodiak is recruiting a Staff Software Engineer to lead design and development of mission planning, routing, and human-assisted autonomy for Kodiak driverless trucks. The role provides scope and visibility to influence the roadmap for the entire motion planning stack, including behavior, prediction, and trajectory generation. This is an opportunity to collaborate with Product, Perception, Controls, and other cross-functional teams in order to improve overall autonomy performance. Customers interact with Kodiak trucks through mission assignments, making this a key engineering position to achieve product excellence. The role spans a range of motion planning responsibilities, from graph traversal and routing, to mission planning and product development, to human-assisted autonomy and…

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