Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infra for Autonomous Systems

Kodiak; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build infrastructure, tools, and systems that support our Planning team, enabling faster, safer development of autonomy software.

You will develop internal tools, libraries, workflows, metrics, and evaluation systems that support behavior and motion planning. This role suits a strong generalist engineer aiming for broad technical impact.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

C++ performance optimization

Large-scale software systems

Collaboration

Generalist software engineering

Autonomy/robotics interest

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Developer tooling

Logging/metrics tooling

Job description

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build infrastructure, tools, and systems that support our Planning team, enabling faster, safer development of autonomy software.

You will develop internal tools, libraries, workflows, metrics, and evaluation systems that support behavior and motion planning. This role suits a strong generalist engineer aiming for broad technical impact.