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How Kodiak hires

Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
76 days
Ghost roles
10%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Kodiak scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 61 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 10% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 76 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Kodiak is an American autonomous trucking company founded in 2018 that develops the Kodiak Driver, a self-driving system for long-haul freight trucks and off-road industrial vehicles. It runs autonomous freight lanes in Texas and the southern United States for carriers and shippers and deploys driverless trucks at industrial sites such as Permian Basin oilfield operations. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.

News

News Anchorage Daily News 1 month ago
Outdoor opportunities draw visitors to Kodiak, but there's rich culture and history to explore too
There are plenty of Alutiiq traditions to experience as well as a history of Russian customs on the island.
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News YahooFinance 1 month ago
Kodiak Copper strikes high-grade copper and gold at Ketchan
Kodiak Copper has delivered a very encouraging early result from its first drilling campaign at the Ketchan deposit in British Columbia.
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News Heavy Duty Trucking 1 month ago
Kodiak: Driverless Long-Haul Truck Launch on Track for 2026
Kodiak AI says its driverless long-haul safety case is 93% complete and it remains on track to begin commercial operations by year-end 2026.
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News markets.businessinsider.com 1 month ago
Kodiak AI On Track For Year-End Driverless Long-Haul Launch as Safety Case Readiness Reaches 93%
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kodiak AI, Inc. (
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Blog 1 month ago
Kodiak AI On Track For Year-End Driverless Long-Haul Launch as Safety Case Readiness Reaches 93%
Kodiak AI remains on track to launch driverless long-haul service by the end of 2026. Its Autonomy Readiness Measure reached 93% in August, up from 91%.
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News FreightWaves 2 months ago
AMD lands Kodiak, a first in autonomous truck compute
AMD EPYC processors now handle autonomous truck compute for Kodiak AI, the first driverless trucking company to deploy the chips before its highway launch.
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Blog 2 months ago
Kodiak AI and AMD Collaborate to Advance Computing Power for Driverless Trucking
AMD EPYC processors power the seventh-generation Kodiak Driver, delivering higher clock speeds and lower power consumption for driverless trucking.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Kodiak over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
84
Postings analysed
48
Stack modernity
70/100AI adopter
Languages
C++65%
Python33%
MATLAB10%
SQL6%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch6%
PyTorch C++4%
CUDA2%
DeepSpeed2%
Databases
Amazon Aurora2%
ElasticSearch2%
MS SQL2%
MySQL2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux13%
AWS13%
Kibana10%
Ubuntu10%
AI & ML
LLM2%
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Full Kodiak tech stack 84 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$74k – $265k
Open positions
45
40 Jobs
Junior 10%
Middle 15%
Senior 42.5%
Staff 27.5%
Architect 5%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 4 $175k $150k – $210k
Middle 6 $78k $74k – $170k
Senior 17 $215k $145k – $260k
Staff 11 $250k $220k – $265k
Architect 2 $253k $245k – $260k
Highest paying role Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Deployment $265k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Kodiak By role, level and city, against the market · 45 jobs with pay

People

Donald Burnette
Executive Officer, Director
Michael Wiesinger
Executive Officer
Allyson Satin
Director
Surajit Datta
Executive Officer
Jordan Coleman
Executive Officer
Andreas Wendel
Executive Officer
Zsuzsanna Major
Executive Officer
Peter Ogilvie
Executive Officer
Jarrod Phillips
Executive Officer
David Kaplan
Executive Officer, Director
Scott Tobin
Director
Kenneth Goldman
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
61
13 opened / 11 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
78 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Field & Service
22% ▼
Industrial Engineering
17% ▲
Early Careers
15% ▼
Backend
10% ▲
Hardware
10%
Product
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Field & Service (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Odessa Oct 2026
Added Red Teaming to stack Oct 2026
Added Physical AI to stack Oct 2026
Added GCP to stack Oct 2026
Added MySQL to stack Sep 2026
Added MS SQL to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Sep 2026
Added Debian to stack Sep 2026
Added C# to stack Sep 2026
New location: Kermit Sep 2026
Added TypeScript to stack Sep 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
9
Hiring now
5
Countries
1
Busiest office
Mountain View
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Mountain View United States
HQ
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
47 open roles 30 posted in 90 days 55% engineering $220k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering, Product
1045 Terra Bella Ave, Mountain View, 94043
seen since Jun 2025 company site, careers board, job postings
Lancaster United States
Plant / site
Kodiak AI Operations
9 open roles 9 posted in 90 days $74k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Product
Lancaster
seen since Jul 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
San Francisco United States
Regional office
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
3 open roles 67% engineering $228k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Hardware, Industrial Engineering
seen since Jun 2025 careers board, job postings
Odessa United States
Plant / site
Odessa, TX
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $78k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
seen since May 2026 careers board, job postings
Kermit United States
Regional office
Kermit, TX
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Field & Service
seen since Jul 2026 careers board, job postings
Dallas United States
Regional office
Dallas, TX
seen since Jul 2026 careers board
Detroit United States
Regional office
Detroit, MI
careers board
Kodiak United States
Regional office
Kodiak Office
opened 2026 careers board
Texas United States
Regional office
Lancaster, Texas
3901 Corporate Drive, #300, Lancaster, Texas 75134
seen since Jul 2026 company site

Jobs

$130k – $160k per year • In office • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Mountain View
JavaScript
TypeScript
Time Series Forecasting
Frontend
Three.JS
React.js
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$125k – $190k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Mountain View
Linear
Smartsheet
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In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Mountain View
ElasticSearch
Amazon Aurora
DevOps
Kibana
Git
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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$200k – $250k per year • In office • 6+ years exp • Mountain View
C++
Motion Planning
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$195k – $260k per year • In office • 10+ years exp • Mountain View
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$200k – $260k per year • In office • PhD • Mountain View
C++
Computer Vision
Robotics
Localization
Sensor Fusion
Inertial Navigation
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$190k – $220k per year • In office • PhD • Mountain View
C++
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
Robotics
Sensor Fusion
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$125k – $150k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Mountain View
SQL
Kibana
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$200k – $260k per year • In office • PhD • Mountain View
C++
Computer Vision
Robotics
Localization
Sensor Fusion
Inertial Navigation
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$150k – $195k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Mountain View
Apply
$130k – $190k per year • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Mountain View
C++
MATLAB
Apply
$160k – $190k per year • In office • Mountain View
MinIO
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
Rancher
Prometheus
Git
AWS
Kubernetes
Ubuntu
Grafana
Linux
Windows
Wi-Fi
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
Okta
Nmap
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Financials

Total raised
$206.3M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $499k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $145M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $60M Details
Grant 2021 $750k Details
Grant 2020 $49k Details