Kodiak Robotics
Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Planning
$240K–$265K
Mountain View, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 23, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, California, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship may be provided for eligible candidates, if applicable.
About the job
Build and deploy production-quality behavior and motion planning software for autonomous vehicles, improving safe, comfortable, and effective decisions in complex driving scenarios.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, validate, and deploy behavior and motion planning features; own projects end to end.
- Debug autonomy behavior using logs, simulation, metrics, and real-world data; define success metrics and validation plans.
- Collaborate across autonomy teams, participate in design and code 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 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
$240,000 — $265,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++
AI focus
Develop behavior and motion planning systems for autonomous driving. The company also uses the third-party AI tool Endorsed for initial application screening; human recruiters make final hiring decisions.
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