Base Salary
$204k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and productionize causal ML systems influencing marketplace decisions across DoorDash New Verticals.
- Build uplift and heterogeneous treatment effect models for lifecycle value, promotions, retention, and reactivation.
- Develop counterfactual evaluation frameworks for ranking, recommendations, search, promotions, substitutions, and marketplace interventions.
- Connect experimentation, observational data, and ML decisioning to support better marketplace tradeoffs.
- Design surrogate metrics and early indicators that preserve long-term marketplace health.
- Translate causal models into production systems for ranking, targeting, budget allocation, inventory-aware discovery, and consumer growth.
- Raise causal reasoning standards across ML teams and help evaluate and debug causal claims.
Requirements
- Deep practical experience with causal inference, econometrics, experimentation, or causal ML.
- Experience shipping production models or decision systems, ideally in high-scale marketplaces or related domains such as ads, recommendations, search, pricing, promotions, logistics, or fintech.
- Strong judgment regarding randomized experiments, observational estimation, and model-based decisioning tradeoffs.
- Experience applying methods such as doubly robust estimation, double machine learning, instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, CUPED, uplift modeling, contextual bandits, and off-policy evaluation.
- Strong ML engineering ability to build reliable pipelines, train models, evaluate them rigorously, and partner with platform teams for production deployment.
- Strong product judgment connecting causal methods to business decisions rather than only optimizing offline metrics.
- Ability to collaborate with ML engineers, economists, data scientists, product managers, and business leaders.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits and expense reimbursement
- Commuter benefits match
- Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried roles
- 80 hours of paid sick time per year for salaried roles
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
- National base salary range of $203,500–$299,300 USD
- Equity grant opportunities
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About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly and always learn and reiterate to support merchants, Dashers and the communities we serve. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods. DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. Our leaders seek the truth and welcome big, hairy, audacious questions. We are grounded in our company values, and we make intentional decisions that are both logical and display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to Merchants to Customers.