Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development
• Improve testing, debugging, metrics, and evaluation workflows
• Expose actionable insights from logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data
• Build infrastructure that supports safety case development and test coverage analysis
• Improve internal libraries, developer workflows, and Planning observability
• Optimize performance, maintainability, and reliability of Planning software
• Partner closely with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity
• Design reusable systems and abstractions used across the Planning team
• Lead infrastructure projects with broad team-wide impact

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems
• Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflows
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code
• Experience with metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation
• Strong systems thinking and ability to understand complex engineering workflows
• Interest in autonomy, robotics, or planning systems
• Strong collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building safety-case tooling or test coverage infrastructure
• Experience with large-scale autonomy metrics and evaluation systems

About the Company

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is a leader in autonomous ground transportation, developing an AI-powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector.