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Software Engineer – Controls
| Company | Kodiak Robotics |
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| Location | Mountain View, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $175000 – $220000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- A strong background in robotics, controls, optimization, and mathematics (MS, PhD, or equivalent experience)
- Developed, tested, and tuned controllers for mobile autonomous robots, ideally trucks, cars, or flying vehicles
- Performed system identification, modeling, simulation, or other characterization for systems with complex dynamics
- A strong theoretical foundation paired with practical experience in controls, system modeling, and/or redundant architectures
- A focus on end-to-end vehicle safety
- Software development experience writing production-level C or C++
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for designing and implementing our feedback, control, and actuation strategies using both established & novel techniques
- Architect, develop, and test reliable, redundant, and safety-critical software that controls fully-loaded trucks driving on the road
- Characterize the vehicle platform (e.g., steering, braking, throttle/engine management, dynamics) to develop models that can be used for precise motion planning, simulation, and controls
- Work on fundamental problems in redundant actuation, degraded operation, and fail-safe control
- Collaborate with other teams at Kodiak (e.g. hardware, motion planning, and systems engineering) to deliver a robust vehicle control architecture (for example: requirement specifications, test plans, test documentation, and implemented testing at all levels of integration)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with software design and implementation in safety-critical domains (e.g. automotive, aerospace, medical, etc)
- Written low-level drivers for software/hardware interfacing using protocols such as CAN or ethernet
- Written efficient code running on resource-constrained embedded systems with a real-time operating system
- Experience with formal verification methods, writing requirements, and systems engineering processes
- Comfortable with Python, Matlab/Simulink, or other simulation/analysis tools used in feedback system design
