DoorDash

Autonomy Platform Engineer

DoorDash
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$137k - $292k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain runtime, middleware, and platform services for autonomy applications.
  • Enable new compute, camera, lidar, and other sensor platforms.
  • Improve process orchestration, messaging, configuration, startup and shutdown behavior, resource isolation, and fault recovery.
  • Develop observability, tracing, performance measurement, diagnostics, and regression-detection capabilities.
  • Build data capture, replay, and debugging workflows.
  • Create provisioning, packaging, deployment, integration-test, and platform-readiness tooling.
  • Lead complex debugging across software, operating-system, driver, networking, timing, and hardware boundaries.

Requirements

  • Strong production experience with C++ and Python.
  • Experience with embedded Linux, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex mechatronic systems.
  • Understanding of operating systems, concurrency, networking, middleware, drivers, GPU acceleration, storage, or real-time performance.
  • Experience debugging across multiple software and hardware layers.
  • Experience with profiling, tracing, observability, automated testing, and CI.
  • Familiarity with Bazel, Git, and modern software-development practices.
  • ROS/ROS2 or comparable robotics middleware experience is preferred.
  • Experience collaborating across software, controls, and hardware disciplines is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with some time in-office and some time remote.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off, and paid sick leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and mental health programs.
  • Flexible paid time off for salaried roles, with 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
  • Equity grant opportunities are included in the compensation package.

Tech Stack

Categories

EmbeddedRobotics
DoorDash

About DoorDash

10,000+ employees

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.

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