3 months ago
Base Salary
$199k - $292k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and tune low-level flight-control algorithms for overactuated multirotor and hybrid aircraft on embedded platforms
- Own aircraft dynamics simulation and aerodynamics modeling
- Bring up and tune flight controllers on new drone platforms
- Develop, tune, and test fault-tolerant controls for motor loss, safe landing, and emergency behaviors
- Build trajectory motion planners for smooth flight and obstacle avoidance
- Help develop high-level mission route planning with fallback locations
- Implement controllers in C++ and test them in flight
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of linear and nonlinear systems, stability analysis, controller synthesis and tuning, frequency-domain analysis, optimization, and linear algebra
- Excellent C++ and embedded-systems knowledge
- Experience with dynamics modeling, simulation, and aerodynamics
- Experience developing and tuning flight controllers and interfacing with state estimation
- Excellent knowledge of motion-planning algorithms, including trajectory optimization, nonlinear optimization, A*, D*, and RRT variants
- Experience with sensorless brushless DC motor control
- Experience building or owning a robot control stack from design through implementation and hardware testing
- MS or PhD in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, robotics, or a related technical field
- Preferred experience with PX4 internals, hybrid VTOL transition control, tethered or suspended payload dynamics, open-source flight stacks or robotics frameworks, published controls or robotics research, and Model Predictive Control development and deployment
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match
- Flexible paid time off and 80 hours of paid sick time annually for salaried roles
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance and mental health program
- Equity grant opportunities
- U.S.-based role with location-localized compensation
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.