Compensation
$200,000-$260,000/yrDescription
Kodiak's autonomy stack is built on AI that fuses diverse sensor streams into a unified, actionable understanding of the world. We are developing GigaFusionNet – a large-scale multimodal transformer that learns rich, joint representations across camera, LiDAR, and radar through attention-based fusion. We are looking for engineers to push the boundaries of how transformer architectures combine and reason over heterogeneous sensor data.This role is open to all levels – from those eager to contribute to cutting-edge research to experts driving innovation at scale.
In this role, you will:
In this role, you will:
- Design and develop multimodal transformer architectures that fuse camera, LiDAR, and radar into unified representations
- Research and implement cross-modal attention mechanisms, token fusion strategies, and efficient multi-stream tokenization
- Build scalable training pipelines for large-scale multimodal transformers across massive real-world datasets
- Explore self-supervised and contrastive pretraining objectives that learn transferable multimodal representations
- Optimize transformer models for real-time inference under latency and compute constraints
What you’ll bring:
- BS, MS, or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related field
- 4+ years experience with transformer architectures, particularly in multimodal or multi-stream settings
- Familiarity with cross-attention, token fusion, or modality alignment techniques
- Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Strong understanding of scalable training for large models, including distributed training and mixed-precision optimization
- Passion for building AI that reasons over the full breadth of sensory input to operate safely in the real world
What we offer:
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
- Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits)
- MetLife Legal Services, Identity & Fraud Protection, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Accident Insurance, & Critical Illness Insurance
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies
- Our office is centrally located in Mountain View, CA
- Office perks: dog-friendly, free catered lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and free EV charging
- Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance
- Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace through Cigna, Calm through Kaiser, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health through Cigna, Rula (mental health navigation)
- Fidelity 401(k)
- Commuter, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA
- Various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.)
Stack
PythonPyTorchTransformersDeep LearningMultimodalTensorFlow
- Posted
- Feb 20, 2026
- Last seen
- Jul 3, 2026
- First seen
- Jun 25, 2026
