2 months ago
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
DoorDash builds a marketplace and logistics platform that connects consumers with local restaurants and retailers for on-demand delivery and pickup, powered by a network of independent Dashers. It earns through delivery fees, merchant commissions, advertising, DashPass subscriptions, and white-label fulfillment via DoorDash Drive. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the public company operates across the U.S. and selected international markets, and also researches automation through DoorDash Labs.