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Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure

Kodiak AI· Motion Planning
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Mountain View, CA$180k - $215kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to build infrastructure, tools, and systems that support the Planning team to develop, debug, evaluate, and deploy autonomy software faster and more safely.

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.

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering background with 5+ years experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems, ideally with autonomy or robotics 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 and interest to build tools that make other engineers more effective.

Skills

Required:C++Tools and infrastructure developmentMetrics, logs, testing, debuggingSystems thinkingCollaboration
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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