Senior Software Engineer, Behavior & Motion Planning
Kodiak · Mountain View, CA
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Kodiak's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Kodiak's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Kodiak
- high 72 stale, 2 reposted of 72 open
- Hiring momentum
- 92 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Kodiak's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Kodiak.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Kodiak AI, you will focus on designing, implementing, and improving behavior and motion planning systems for autonomous vehicles. Your responsibilities include owning planning projects from definition to deployment, debugging autonomy behavior, and collaborating with various teams to ensure safe and effective decision-making in complex driving scenarios. Additionally, you will write production-quality C++ software and mentor other engineers.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Kodiak as an employer.
What you need
- Experience in behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related areas.
- Strong software engineering skills, preferably in 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.
- Strong system-level judgment around safety, comfort, and deployment readiness.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
What you get
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
- Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits)
- MetLife Legal Services, Identity & Fraud Protection, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Accident Insurance, & Critical Illness Insurance
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies
- Office perks: dog-friendly, free catered lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and free EV charging
- Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work options or flexibility in work hours.
- The role requires strong collaboration across various technical teams, which may imply a need for in-office presence.
- The pay range is broad and depends on various factors, which may lead to variability in compensation for similar roles.
- The company uses a third-party AI tool for initial application screening, which may affect the application process for candidates.
Summarised from Kodiak's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Kodiak on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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