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 - Visa sponsorship
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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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