Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure

Job overview

Compensation is $180,000–$215,000 per year. The Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure role is onsite in Mountain View, CA. in the structured listing; the posting gives a California base salary range of $180,000–$215,000. Kodiak Robotics develops autonomous ground transportation technology for commercial trucking and public-sector applications. The engineer builds tools and infrastructure that help the Planning team develop, debug, evaluate, and deploy autonomy software more quickly and safely. The role improves engineering workflows, software quality, performance, and test coverage through reusable systems and close collaboration with planning engineers.

What you'll do

• Build tools and infrastructure for Planning development
• improve testing, debugging, metrics, and evaluation workflows
• surface insights from logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data
• support safety-case development and test coverage analysis
• improve libraries, developer workflows, and observability
• optimize performance, maintainability, and reliability
• partner with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks
• lead infrastructure projects.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

planning infrastructure

mountain view ca

kodiak

autonomous vehicles

autonomy software

c++

developer tools

simulation

testing and debugging

safety case

planning observability

robotics

california pay range $180k–$215k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Competitive benefits package
• total compensation includes base pay, equity, and bonus. Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates.

Why this role

Focus on infrastructure and developer tools supporting behavior and motion planning for autonomous vehicles; C++ performance optimization and large-scale systems experience are sought.

About the employer

Kodiak is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.