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  • Class A Driver

    Lancaster, TX

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Class A Driver Lancaster, TX Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for experienced commercial drivers to join our Lancaster operations as Assisted Autonomy Drivers to help us deploy our autonomous technology. Our team is on the cutting edge of working with our partners to improve and integrate our technology in real world conditions. Assisted Autonomy allows a trained CDL driver to remotely control a self-driving truck in certain low-speed situations-like tight yards or complex drop-off areas-where a human touch is helpful. It blends remote support with onboard autonomy to create a solution that enables safety and flexibility. All Assisted Autonomy drivers must be experienced and fully licensed, and operate a remote assistance station with intuitive controls including a steering wheel, pedals and brakes to provide guidance to the Kodiak Driver. What you'll bring: Class A CDL License with clean driving record A min. of 3+ years of verifiable and recent Class A

  • Senior Onboard Infrastructure Software Engineer

    San Francisco Bay Area

    unspecified $150K-$250K

    Senior Onboard Infrastructure Software Engineer San Francisco Bay Area Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for a Software Engineer with a focus on Onboard Infrastructure and Drivers to join us and take a key role in designing and implementing our core software infrastructure. You will work across multiple domains to bring together our embedded devices, AI, computing hardware, and sensors to create a highly reliable and performant system. This role will give you the opportunity to test and deploy complex robots for real customers. In this role, you will: Collaborate with engineers across multiple domains to build the Kodiak real-time operating system that empowers our robots. Design and implement our core infrastructure and libraries using modern C++ Build highly reliable and highly performant compute and network systems Work closely with next generation LIDARs, cameras, radars, and other sensors. Gather metrics, analyze, and optimize the operation of Kodiak autonomous systems Qualifications: Robust technical

  • Autonomy Systems Software Engineer

    San Francisco Bay Area

    unspecified $200K-$245K

    Autonomy Systems Software Engineer San Francisco Bay Area Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for an Autonomy Software Systems Engineer who can derive requirements from first principles for safe and mission-critical autonomous behavior across both commercial and defense applications. An ideal candidate will have a background in developing algorithms for autonomy or robotics in aerospace, defense, or automotive domains. This will be used to support our safety claims about safe perception, motion planning, and control for autonomous robots deployed in both commercial freight and defense logistics environments. In this role, you will: Collaborate closely with Autonomy Software teams by using first-principles analysis to develop requirements for safe perception, localization, prediction, motion planning, and/or control algorithms. Identify edge cases that could help us expose weaknesses in our system prior to encountering them in on-road environments. Provide analysis to support complex autonomy system design trade-offs to inform system design decisions affecting safety and performance.

  • Hardware Quality Industrialization Engineer

    San Francisco Bay Area

    unspecified $130K-$170K

    Hardware Quality Industrialization Engineer San Francisco Bay Area Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for an experienced Hardware Quality Industrialization Engineer to join our team. Our manufacturing team is growing quickly and we need someone with a strong quality engineering and supplier management background. This person will be the founding member of the quality and will get to design and build the team from the ground up. In this role, you will: Work internally within Kodiak with engineering, supply chain, operations and our external manufacturing partners to build data driven, repeatable quality processes Evaluate new and existing suppliers to ensure their internal processes and controls meet Kodiak standards Analyze field returns to drive potential design improvements Drive root cause analysis with both internal stakeholders and external partners. Own all corrective actions and improvements at the manufacturer(s) or internally Work with our internal test team to establish test parameters, pass/fail limits and overall

  • Product Operations Manager

    Lancaster, TX

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Product Operations Manager Lancaster, TX Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Product Operations Specialist to join our team in Lancaster, TX. This role bridges the gap between our Product/Engineering teams and our Operations/Field teams. You will own optimizing, and developing mechanisms that enable product operations to scale our operational footprint. This role is based full-time in our Lancaster office. In this role, you will: Process Design and Scalability: Partner closely with Program, Engineering, and Ops to design, document, and stand up processes that support operational scalability for our autonomous vehicle technology. Feedback Loop Management: Own the feedback loop between Field Ops and Product & Engineering, translating operational needs into actionable product and engineering requirements. Feature Deployment & Validation: Work with cross-functional teams to rapidly test, validate, and deploy new product features in an operationally-intensive environment. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a liaison between Product, Engineering, Field Operations, and

  • Senior Finance Analyst

    Mountain View, CA

    unspecified $150K-$160K

    Senior Finance Analyst Mountain View, CA Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. The finance team partners with functions throughout Kodiak, providing financial support and insights to enable the business to maximize operational and financial outcomes. We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst and self-starter to join our team. This role reports to the VP of Finance. In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional partners including engineering, supply chain, S&M and G&A functions as well as the finance and accounting teams. This is a key role in the CFO organization, influencing people throughout the company to help secure the success of the company. If you love getting into the weeds and multi-tasking, are a systems and modeling guru, and are passionate about inspiring change and business growth in a dynamic fast-paced environment, this role is for you. What you'll do: Play a major role in the short and long term planning and reporting of

  • Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer - Defense

    Mountain View, CA

    unspecified $180K-$210K

    Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer - Defense Mountain View, CA Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for a Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer with deep experience in new platform development and system-level integration. This role is at the forefront of bringing next-generation autonomous vehicle platforms to life - from early-stage concept through integration, validation, and deployment. You will work closely with hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams to drive new platform development, with a focus on integration quality, test rigor, and technical execution. In this role, you will: Lead system-level integration of sensors, compute, actuation, and vehicle systems for new platform development programs Drive the full integration lifecycle: architecture definition, build planning, bring-up, validation, and sign-off Develop and execute structured test plans to validate new platform functionality, performance, and reliability Coordinate and lead cross-functional build and integration events with Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, and Systems teams Provide Design-For-Manufacturing and Design-For-Test feedback to ensure new platforms are

  • Helpdesk Lead

    Mountain View, CA

    unspecified $140K-$190K

    Helpdesk Lead Mountain View, CA Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. Kodiak AI is looking for an experienced and proactive IT Helpdesk Lead to scale out our IT support function. In this role, you will be the primary owner of the employee technology experience. You will start as a hands-on "department of one," establishing core processes and tools, with the explicit goal of hiring, training, and managing a team of 2-3 IT Analysts as we scale. This is a unique opportunity to help further define the culture of IT at Kodiak AI. We are looking for someone who champions a "Shift Left" mentality-moving knowledge closer to the user through automation and self-service-while ensuring high-touch support for complex issues. In this role, you will: Build and Manage the Helpdesk Function Establish Processes: Design and implement scalable IT Service Management (ITSM) workflows, including ticket prioritization matrices, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and escalation paths. Tool Implementation: Configure and

  • Senior Systems Engineer, Fault Management

    San Francisco Bay Area

    unspecified $150K-$190K

    Senior Systems Engineer, Fault Management San Francisco Bay Area Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. The Systems and Safety Engineering team at Kodiak is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to own the design and execution of Kodiak's next-generation Autonomy Fault Management System. This individual will lead the effort end-to-end: from product and system requirement definition, through architecture and implementation, to verification and validation, and safety case integration. This leader will ensure that the Kodiak Driver handles onboard system faults with the desired, correct, safe response. This role is central to progressing towards achieving a scalable driverless deployment and will work closely with autonomy hardware, software, and system safety teams. This role directly shapes Kodiak's ability to operate sustainably at commercial scale. Fault management is not only a safety system-it is a primary lever of fleet availability, utilization, and cost per mile. You will own the technical strategies that determine when the system can continue operating

  • On-site Support Driver, Commercial

    Kermit, TX

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    On-site Support Driver, Commercial Kermit, TX Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. As an OSS Driver, Commercial (On-Site Support Driver) , you will support Kodiak's live commercial autonomous trucking operations by responding to in-field events, assisting autonomous vehicles, and ensuring rapid recovery when issues arise. You'll play a critical role in maintaining fleet uptime, safety, and reliability while operating in real-world, customer-facing environments. This role is highly hands-on and field-based. OSS Drivers work closely with the Command Center, Operations Leads, and Supervisors to execute rescues, perform vehicle movements, and support commercial freight operations on public highways and industrial sites. If you're a safety-focused driver who thrives in dynamic environments and takes pride in solving problems in the field, this role is a great fit. What You'll Do Respond to live commercial operations by dispatching to autonomous trucks requiring on-site support or recovery. Safely operate Kodiak vehicles and support assets during rescue, recovery, staging, and repositioning

  • Engineering Technician

    Mountain View, CA

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Engineering Technician Mountain View, CA Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for an Engineering Technician to join us in building and maintaining our experimental and operations vehicles. In this role, you will: Be a core member on the Engineering team responsible for building high quality prototype and first article builds of autonomous technology Generate work instructions, redlines, and manufacturing/service feedback for the engineering team Perform incoming quality inspections for contract manufacturing builds Organize and manage prototype test setups/fixtures Perform testing on mechanical and electrical components and assemblies Perform soldering, mechanical assemblies, and subsystem builds Manage BOMs and organize lab inventories Maintain a clean, safe, and organized working environment throughout builds and engineering tests What you'll bring: 5+ years of experience working in an R&D or development lab environment in close collaboration with engineering staff. Strong hands-on background. Diverse experience in the automotive, aerospace or related industry is a plus. Experience with prototype

  • Staff Systems Engineer, Fault Management

    San Francisco Bay Area

    unspecified $200K-$250K

    Staff Systems Engineer, Fault Management San Francisco Bay Area Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. The Systems and Safety Engineering team at Kodiak is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to own the design and execution of Kodiak's next-generation Autonomy Fault Management System. This individual will lead the effort end-to-end: from product and system requirement definition, through architecture and implementation, to verification and validation, and safety case integration. This leader will ensure that the Kodiak Driver handles onboard system faults with the desired, correct, safe response. This role is central to progressing towards achieving a scalable driverless deployment and will work closely with autonomy hardware, software, and system safety teams. This role directly shapes Kodiak's ability to operate sustainably at commercial scale. Fault management is not only a safety system-it is a primary lever of fleet availability, utilization, and cost per mile. You will own the technical strategies that determine when the system can continue operating

  • Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager, Driverless Highway Launch

    Mountain View, CA

    unspecified $160K-$220K

    Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager, Driverless Highway Launch Mountain View, CA Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. Kodiak is launching driverless operations on public highways by the end of year - and we need the TPM who gets us there. This is a high-stakes, high-visibility role with one north star: get the truck on the highway, without a driver, safely and on schedule. You'll partner with Systems Engineering, Safety and the Autonomy Teams to drive execution of our Functional Safety (FuSA) and SOTIF programs and the Safety Case that underpins them - keeping every workstream on track on the critical path to driverless highway deployment. You'll run the cross-functional program cadence, drive how we verify and document software, and push every workstream to move faster without cutting corners. You'll also find smarter ways to execute - including using AI tools wherever they give us an edge. Launch is the milestone, not the finish line. After we

  • Defense Technical Program Manager

    Mountain View, CA

    unspecified $180K-$220K

    Defense Technical Program Manager Mountain View, CA Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. Kodiak is growing its defense portfolio and needs a TPM who can hold multiple programs together simultaneously. You won't own just one program type-you'll drive delivery across a diverse set of contracts that range from tactical vehicle autonomy integration (e.g., ROGUE-Fires/NMESIS with the Marine Corps) to autonomous fleet deployment programs for other DoD customers. Each program has different customers, different hardware, and different operational demands. This is a cross-functional leadership role for someone who thinks in systems and thrives on coordination complexity. You'll work across hardware, software, safety, and ops sub-teams-aligning schedules, managing dependencies, and driving each program to delivery while maintaining the rigor defense customers expect. What you'll do: Own end-to-end execution across multiple concurrent defense programs-from requirements and hardware design through integration, field testing, and customer delivery or demonstration. Serve as the integrating force across sub-program TPMs and engineering teams

  • Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Deployment

    San Francisco Bay Area

    unspecified $200K-$265K

    Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Deployment San Francisco Bay Area Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. Kodiak is seeking Staff Machine Learning Engineers, focusing on model deployment to help build the intelligence that powers the Kodiak Driver. Our ML teams work across perception, prediction, planning, and AI infrastructure to turn real-world driving data into models that enable safe and scalable autonomous trucking. In this role, you will design and deploy machine learning systems that improve our vehicles' ability to understand the world, predict the behavior of other road users, and make safe driving decisions. You will collaborate closely with robotics, autonomy, and infrastructure teams to continuously improve the performance of our autonomy stack using large-scale data from our growing fleet. This is a high-impact opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI systems operating in the real world, where every mile driven improves our models and brings autonomous trucking closer to global deployment. In this role, you

  • Staff Software Engineer, Embedded

    Mountain View, CA

    unspecified $200K-$250K

    Staff Software Engineer, Embedded Mountain View, CA Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for an Embedded Software Engineer with a background in embedded systems who understands how to ship mission critical software. The role will collaborate across hardware and software teams to design the low level devices that interface with our truck systems, ensure reliable operations of large robots, and provide cutting edge functionality to real customers. The role will bring the best of modern software engineering to ensure a high level of safety and performance. In this role, you will: Collaborate with hardware EE on design and test of high reliable hardware systems Collaborate with software engineering on architecture, optimizations and reviews Contribute to hardware specifications to ensure test coverage and fault detection Participate in hands-on hardware bring-up in the engineering lab using analyzers and probes Debug common truck functions on the vehicles (Driver interfaces, Braking, Steering) Develop software for embedded

  • Functional Safety Engineer, Software

    Mountain View, CA

    unspecified $130K-$190K

    Functional Safety Engineer, Software Mountain View, CA Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for a Functional Safety Software Engineer to join us and drive the development and management of our autonomous vehicle safety cases as we bring the Kodiak Autonomy System to market. We first published our Safety Report in 2019 and have based our development on systems engineering, the ISO26262 process and SOTIF principles. In this role, you will: Participate in developing technical safety requirements to be used in the Kodiak Autonomy System in various approved Operational Design Domains. Lead specification of software safety requirements. Participate in development of software safety architectural design. Participate in software safety unit design and implementation. Develop test plans, test procedures, verification reports at the software unit and software integration levels. Support system level testing from a software safety perspective. Perform software safety analyses (e.g. dependent failure analysis) to comply with ISO 26262. Support Hardware-Software Interface

  • Senior Applied AI Engineer - Multimodal Transformers

    San Francisco Bay Area

    unspecified $200K-$260K

    Senior Applied AI Engineer - Multimodal Transformers San Francisco Bay Area Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. Kodiak's autonomy stack is built on AI that fuses diverse sensor streams into a unified, actionable understanding of the world. We are developing GigaFusionNet - a large-scale multimodal transformer that learns rich, joint representations across camera, LiDAR, and radar through attention-based fusion. We are looking for engineers to push the boundaries of how transformer architectures combine and reason over heterogeneous sensor data.This role is open to all levels - from those eager to contribute to cutting-edge research to experts driving innovation at scale. In this role, you will: Design and develop multimodal transformer architectures that fuse camera, LiDAR, and radar into unified representations Research and implement cross-modal attention mechanisms, token fusion strategies, and efficient multi-stream tokenization Build scalable training pipelines for large-scale multimodal transformers across massive real-world datasets Explore self-supervised and contrastive pretraining objectives that learn transferable multimodal

  • Fall 2026 Intern, Perception

    Mountain View, CA

    unspecified $10K-$10K

    Fall 2026 Intern, Perception Mountain View, CA Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for a highly skilled Perception Intern to join us and solve real-world robotics problems. In this role, you will: Be responsible for designing perception algorithms and implementing them in robust, efficient, and well-tested C++ code. Solve real-world perception challenges such as object detection and classification, multi-object tracking, sensor fusion, and scene estimation. Integrate both novel and well-established techniques such as deep neural networks, decision trees, Kalman and particle filters, or point cloud processing on camera, laser, radar, and ultrasound data. Collaborate closely with other experts on the team, including the AI, planning, and systems engineering teams. What you'll bring: Strong technical background. You are currently pursuing a MS or PhD and have experience designing and implementing perception algorithms; exceptional candidates pursuing a BS considered. You are a skilled software engineer with experience in C++ and strong problem-solving skills. You

  • Technician Manager

    Lancaster, TX

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Technician Manager Lancaster, TX Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. In this role, you will: Lead & Supervise - Own your work, jump in where needed and provide direction and support to our team of technicians, ensuring high-quality work and adherence to safety standards Oversee Daily Operations - Manage workflows, assign tasks, and ensure all maintenance, repairs, and servicing are completed on time Project Management - Keep track of the fleet, prototype builds, and test requests - ensuring we have everything needed to keep the team running smoothly Ensure Safety & Compliance - Maintain a safe, clean, and compliant shop environment by enforcing policies and procedures Optimize Efficiency - Continuously improve technician processes to maximize productivity and minimize downtime Cross Functionality - Work closely with multiple engineering teams to facilitate building and testing prototypes What you'll bring: Leadership & Experience - You have 7+ years of experience in an engineering/technician department, with a proven track