We are looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to build infrastructure, tools, and systems that help our Planning team develop, debug, evaluate, and deploy autonomy software faster and more safely. In this role, you will build the internal tools, libraries, workflows, metrics, and evaluation systems that support behavior and motion planning development. You will work closely with Planning engineers to understand their workflows and create infrastructure that improves engineering velocity, software quality, system performance, and test coverage. This is a great role for a strong generalist engineer who enjoys building systems that other engineers rely on every day. What You'll Do • Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development. • Improve testing, debugging, metrics, and evaluation workflows for the Planning team. • 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. What We're Looking For • Strong software engineering background, experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software 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 a desire to build tools that make other engineers more effective. The pay range listed below reflects the base salary in our SF/Silicon Valley location, across several internal levels. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors including: work location, experience, relevant training, education, skill level and performance during interview. Total compensation at Kodiak includes base pay, equity, bonus and a competitive benefits package California Pay Range $240,000-$265,000 USD