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# Controls Software Engineer

- **Company:** Kodiak Robotics
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Systems Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Software Documentation, Ethernet, Formal Verification, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Motion Planning, Real-Time Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Safety Critical Systems
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-controls-kodiak-8764494

## About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Controls Software Engineer who is passionate about safety-critical systems to join our Motion Planning & Controls team., * 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++, * 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

## Description

* 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)


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