Kodiak Staff Software Engineer in Controls responsible for designing and implementing feedback, control, and actuation strategies for autonomous trucks. Develop safety-critical software and collaborate on vehicle control architecture.
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)
What you’ll bring:
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++
Qualification
Strong background in roboticsExperience developingExperience with system identificationFocus on end-to-end vehicle safetyComfortable with Python
Required
Strong background in robotics, controls, optimization, and mathematics (MS, PhD, or equivalent experience)
Experience developing, testing, and tuning controllers for mobile autonomous robots
Experience with system identification, modeling, simulation, or characterization of complex dynamic systems
Strong theoretical foundation and practical experience in controls, system modeling, and redundant architectures
Focus on end-to-end vehicle safety
Software development experience writing production-level C or C++
Preferred
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
