We're #hiring a Senior Mechanical Engineer! Join an early-stage company transforming the forestry industry with teleoperation and supervised autonomy. 🔩 Design custom hardware to outfit various forestry equipment for teleoperation and autonomy. ✅ High degree of ownership and autonomy over the work you do. 💻 Remote-first position with up to 15% travel. ➕ Competitive salary range and benefits. Apply below or share with your network!
About us
Kodama Systems is a technology company transforming the forestry industry with teleoperation and supervised autonomy. With Kodama Autopilot™, a retrofit control system designed for tough environments, machines can be driven from anywhere off project sites, improving safety, reducing costs, and addressing labor challenges across the $100B timber industry. Backed by leading investors and industry partners, Kodama’s solutions offer timberland owners and logging contractors scalable, cost-effective tools for forest management and wildfire mitigation.
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http://www.kodama.ai
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- Industry
- Forestry and Logging
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2021
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🔊 Time for another Meet the Team Monday! We’d like to introduce you to Kevin Greene, Autonomy Engineer! 💻 Kevin is a seasoned robotics engineer currently driving autonomy and control innovation at our company. As one of Kodama's first employees, he has been instrumental in building the foundational software behind Autopilot, our system for teleoperating forestry equipment from anywhere. 🤖 Prior to Kodama, he designed safety systems and perception autonomy software for drones and autonomous ground vehicles. He also worked on construction robots, focusing on collision detection systems and improving motion planners for heavy machinery. His lifelong passion for robotics began in high school, where he led his school's first robotics team and continued throughout his career. 🎸 When not at work, Kevin enjoys bouldering, traveling, disc golf, and piano. He also recently started learning guitar. We appreciate all of Kevin's hard work!
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Last week, in collaboration with Weiler Forestry, we demonstrated Kodama Autopilot to a national audience of loggers and forestry professionals at the American Loggers Council in Sonora, CA. We're excited to introduce this revolutionary technology to the industry as a way to relieve labor issues and reduce operational costs on project sites that, in turn, sustain our timber industry and mitigate catastrophic wildfires. Thank you to the ALC for hosting us and everyone else for engaging during the heat - we had a great time with you all! For more information about the event and our collaboration, follow the link in the comment below. ⬇
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🌲 Thank you to World Forestry Center and CANOPY organizers for including Kodama in this year's event to share ideas on timberland management strategies and nature-based solutions. 🎮 Merritt Jenkins participated in the Emerging Technologies panel to introduce Kodama Autopilot, our teleoperation system designed to lower costs and increase productivity in harvest operations. 🎥 To learn more about Autopilot, check out our website here! www.kodama.ai/autopilot
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We are excited to have been included on the new 50 by 2050 list produced by Congruent Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank! 💻 This list highlights climate tech companies working on promising technologies that are poised to help global decarbonization efforts. 🌱 Our category, "How We Nourish + Grow" features other companies like Pano AI and Living Carbon working on natural resource solutions: #climatetech #innovation
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Meet the Team Monday! ➕ Introducing Alison Below, Software Engineer at Kodama Systems. As a new team member, Alison is off to the races learning all aspects of forest management while also building out essential framework for our teleoperation and telemetry platforms. 🤖 Prior to Kodama, Alison worked as a software engineer for various companies innovating in autonomous mobility - on land and sea. She enjoys working on software and robotics solutions for a sustainable and equitable future. 🏂 When not working, you can find Alison perusing the farmers market, planning camping trips, and flying a kite. One fun fact: she has a personal goal to snowboard on all 7 continents. 🎉 We're excited to have Alison on board. Welcome to the team!
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Thank you American Loggers Council for the Member Highlight! We look forward to convening with loggers and other industry professionals at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Sonora, CA on Oct. 1-4.
Merritt Jenkins, the founder of Kodama, was an engineer on a quest for solutions when he relocated to Twain Harte two years ago to delve into the timber industry. This charming town, named after Mark Twain, has a historical connection to the 1860s when Twain humorously recounted accidentally setting fire to his own Sierra timber claim. For many years, the approach to wildfires was straightforward: extinguish them. However, this method has led to an excessive accumulation of #biomass — encompassing trees, brush, and grass — in California's forests. In recent years, foresters and firefighters have understood that effectively managing #wildfires necessitates preemptively “treating” their fuel sources. This involves thinning out forests and underbrush using mechanical tools and implementing controlled or prescribed burns, a technique long supported by Indigenous communities. #forestmanagement #thinthethreat #morefuelmorefire READ FULL ARTICLE: https://lnkd.in/edrMjAh4
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Big thanks to Tim Fernholz for taking the time visit our project site and share our work through The New York Times! Let's continue to build technology that increases capacity for boots on the ground and gets us all closer to solving our wildfire crisis. Keep it up Convective Capital and BurnBot, Inc.!
Silicon Valley Wants to Fight Fires With Fire
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📊A recent study found the 2023 Canadian forest fires produced more planet-warming carbon emissions than fossil fuel production in all but three countries! 🔥In the future, similar hot and dry "conditions are likely to drive increased fire activity and suppress carbon uptake by Canadian forests, adding to concerns about the long-term durability of these forests as a carbon sink." ⚙️One thing we still have time to change: forest management strategies. Let's continue to accelerate mechanical fuel treatments and integrate prescribed fire to restore forest ecosystems and mitigate catastrophic wildfires. 🔗 Link to the study: https://lnkd.in/eqAjf49D
Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - Nature
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