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Staff Autonomy Engineer, Perception

Kodiak · Mountain View, CA

Posted about 3 months ago

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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

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About this role

As a Staff Autonomy Perception Engineer at Kodiak AI, you will lead the technical direction for learned scene estimation within the Kodiak Driver, focusing on fusing information from various sensors and improving multi-target tracking. Your role involves developing algorithms for robust perception systems, building evaluation tools, and setting high technical standards through mentorship and design reviews. Collaboration with other teams is key to ensuring perception performance contributes to overall system safety and reliability.

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benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • BS or MS with at least 8 years of industry experience, or PhD with at least 5 years, building and deploying state estimation and sensor fusion systems
  • Deep domain expertise across sensor fusion, state estimation, Kalman filtering, particle filtering, and multi-object tracking
  • Strong experience with deep learning and learned scene estimation
  • Exceptional C++ skills and a track record of writing highly maintainable, production-quality code in high-reliability systems
  • Ability to define metrics, design rigorous evaluations, and use data to make principled engineering decisions
  • History of technical leadership with experience driving projects from ambiguous problem to shipped solution

Nice to have

  • Behavior prediction and scene understanding at scale
  • Real-time perception systems under latency and compute constraints
  • Autonomous vehicle or robotics deployment in unstructured environments
  • Experience defining team-level technical roadmaps or leading multi-engineer efforts

What you get

  • Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
  • 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
  • Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, Rula

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed in the posting, only a pay range provided
  • The role requires a high level of technical expertise and leadership experience, which may limit applicants
  • The position may involve scrutiny related to U.S. person status and export licensing, which could affect eligibility
  • Use of AI tools for initial application screening may impact the application process

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Listed by Kodiak on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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