Senior Planning Infrastructure Engineer

Kodiak; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to build infrastructure, tools, and systems that accelerate autonomy planning development.

You will create internal libraries, workflows, and evaluation systems in collaboration with Planning engineers to improve velocity, software quality, and test coverage. The role emphasizes strong C++ performance skills, experience with tooling and developer workflows, and the ability to deliver high-quality, maintainable code.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with C++ performance optimization.
• Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, 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 to understand complex engineering workflows.
• Interest in autonomy, robotics, or planning systems.
• Strong collaboration to build tools that make other engineers more effective.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development.
• Improve testing, debugging, metrics, and evaluation workflows for the Planning team.
• 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.

Skills

C++ performance optimization

Large-scale software systems

Tooling development

Metrics & observability

Collaboration

Autonomy/robotics interest

Tools

Git

Linux

Job description

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to build infrastructure, tools, and systems that accelerate autonomy planning development.

You will create internal libraries, workflows, and evaluation systems in collaboration with Planning engineers to improve velocity, software quality, and test coverage. The role emphasizes strong C++ performance skills, experience with tooling and developer workflows, and the ability to deliver high-quality, maintainable code.