Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Data
Kodiak
<div class="content-intro"><p>Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.</p></div><div> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kodiak is seeking Machine Learning Engineers focussing on data, pipelines and tooling to help build the intelligence that powers the Kodiak Driver. Our ML teams work across perception, prediction, planning, and AI infrastructure to turn real-world driving data into models that enable safe and scalable autonomous trucking.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this role, you will develop the data pipeline which helps design machine learning systems that improve our vehicles’ ability to understand the world, predict the behavior of other road users, and make safe driving decisions. You will collaborate closely with robotics, autonomy, and infrastructure teams to continuously improve the performance of our autonomy stack using large-scale data from our growing fleet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a high-impact opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI systems operating in the real world, where every mile driven improves our models and brings autonomous trucking closer to global deployment.</span></p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>In this role, you will:</strong></span></div> <ul data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Work with ML team to automate existing and new pipelines using AirFlow/Metaflow like orchestration frameworks.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Utilize different auto generated / manually labeled signals to stratify datasets to dedup data and improve the information content of ML dataset.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Improve and support the metrics dashboard and the underlying datastore to allow it to be scalable for growing volume of tests, performant and cost effective.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Be the advocate for additional tooling to simplify and improve current processes to become more powerful and automated . This includes but is not limited to dataset curation and mining, evaluation and problem discovery, labelling and triage including utilizing LLM’s and offboard models.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sa