Kodiak Robotics
Senior Software Engineer, Behavior & Motion Planning
$185K–$245K
Mountain View, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 18, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Bay Area, California, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship may be provided for eligible candidates.
About the job
Build and improve behavior and motion planning systems for autonomous vehicles, owning features from design and implementation through validation, deployment, and analysis.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, validate, and deploy behavior and motion planning features; own planning projects end to end.
- Debug autonomy behavior with logs, simulation, metrics, and real-world data, and define success metrics and validation plans.
- Collaborate across autonomy teams, participate in technical reviews, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Experience in behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related areas.
- Strong software engineering skills; preferably in C++.
- Experience building autonomy software in industrial, production, or near-production environments.
- Ability to debug complex robotics or autonomy behavior using logs, metrics, and simulation.
Pay
$185,000 — $245,000 USD base salary
Tools
C++
AI focus
Build autonomous-driving behavior and motion planning systems. The company also uses the third-party AI tool Endorsed for initial application screening; final hiring decisions are made by humans.
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