<div class="content-intro"><p>Kodiak AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: KDK), founded in 2018, is a leader in Physical AI, developing driverless technology that powers machines that move. Its Kodiak Driver is a vehicle-agnostic autonomous driving system that combines AI-powered software with modular hardware. Today it operates in long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense. In 2024, Kodiak launched commercial Driver-as-a-Service operations with no one in the cab, and plans to launch driverless long-haul service between Dallas and Houston by the end of 2026.<br><br>Kodiak has partnered with many of the biggest names in freight, including Bosch for scaled hardware production, AWS, and leading customers including Atlas Energy Solutions, IKEA, Bridgestone, Werner Enterprises, C.R. England, Roehl Transport, and General Dynamics Land Systems.</p></div><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="14:1-14:257;732-988"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This role demands deep technical expertise, mathematical rigor, and first-principles thinking to ensure safety in autonomous driving. You will own critical elements of our overall safety strategy to deliver safe, transformative autonomous trucking systems.</span></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="16:1-16:376;990-1365"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Autonomy Safety team is charged with an incredibly challenging task: how to make — and prove — that an autonomous truck is incredibly safe (fewer than one fatal collision per 10⁸ hours). There is no textbook for this problem. You will be part of a small, high-impact team working at the frontier of safety, leveraging existing methods and pioneering new ones when needed.</span></p> <p class="p2"><strong style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What You'll Do: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write C++ to efficiently search high-dimensional failure spaces at scale</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="26:1-26:213;1842-2054"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Use first-principles analysis to develop requirements for safe perception, localization, prediction, motion planning, and control, collaborating directly with the Autonomy Software teams building those systems</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="27:1-27:73;2055-2127"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Identify failure modes and edge cases that expose weaknesses in our system before they appear in on-road environments.</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="28:1-28:143;2128-2270"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perform hazard analysis, risk assessments, and fault tree analysis that feed directly into our safety case and drive system design decisions</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="29:1-29:107;2271-2377"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Provide analysis to support complex autonomy system design trade-offs that affect safety and performance</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="30:1-30:145;2378-2522"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead and support structured testing campaigns like simulation, track, on-road, and hardware-in-the-loop to validate that our safety claims hold</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="31:1-31:123;2523-2645"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pioneer new methods when existing ones aren't enough to hit our safety targets</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="32:1-32:110;2646-2755"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Drive safety thinking cross-functionally — this team doesn't sit in a corner; it shapes how everyone builds</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What you’ll bring:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="38:1-38:86;2784-2869"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">M.S. or Ph.D. in engineering, mathematics, statistics, or a related technical field</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="39:1-39:66;2870-2935"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deep understanding of kinematics, dynamics, and system modeling</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="40:1-40:50;2936-2985"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong foundation in probability and statistics</span></li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-sourcepos="41:1-41:49;2986-3034"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong programming skills in C++ and/or Python</span></li> <li class="font-claude