Drimva

Kodiak Robotics

Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Prediction- Planning

$170K–$210K

Mountain View, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 17, 2026

Location
Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, California, United States
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About the job

Improves autonomous-vehicle behavior prediction and its integration with planning so the system can make safe, comfortable, and effective decisions.

What you'll do

  • Own prediction improvements and collaborate with ML teams on models, outputs, uncertainty, and failure modes.
  • Improve prediction-planning interfaces and evaluate prediction-related planning behavior and failures.
  • Lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers.

What they ask for

  • Strong experience in behavior prediction, trajectory prediction, actor intent modeling, or related autonomous-vehicle prediction problems.
  • Strong software engineering skills and proficiency in C++.
  • Experience with planning systems and understanding how prediction affects planning, safety, comfort, and system behavior.
  • Ability to analyze complex autonomy failures using logs, metrics, and simulation.

Nice to have

  • Python proficiency.

Pay

$170,000 — $210,000 USD base salary

Tools

C++, Python

AI focus

Works on behavior prediction for autonomous driving, including heuristic and learned prediction approaches, actor intent, uncertainty, model integration, and prediction-planning evaluation.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)