Kodiak Robotics
Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure
$180K–$215K
Mountain View, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 24, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems; autonomy or robotics systems are described as ideal.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship may be provided for eligible candidates.
About the job
Builds tools and infrastructure that help the Planning team develop, test, evaluate, debug, and deploy autonomy software more efficiently and safely.
What you'll do
- Build tools, libraries, workflows, metrics, and evaluation systems for Planning development.
- Improve testing, debugging, observability, performance, reliability, and test coverage using logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data.
- Lead infrastructure projects and collaborate with Planning engineers to improve development workflows and velocity.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems.
- Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflows.
- Experience with metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
Nice to have
- Experience building safety-case tooling or test coverage infrastructure.
- Experience with large-scale autonomy metrics and evaluation systems.
Pay
$180,000 — $215,000 USD base salary
Tools
C++
AI focus
The role builds infrastructure for autonomy software development, including Planning tools and evaluation systems. The application screening process uses a third-party AI tool, Endorsed; final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters.
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