2 months ago
Base Salary
$131k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend services for autonomous drone delivery, including path planning, real-time fleet management, and dynamic airspace awareness.
- Develop and maintain scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant systems for managing delivery drone fleets.
- Build simulations and testing frameworks to validate path-planning algorithm performance and reliability.
- Improve the performance, reliability, scalability, and security of drone backend systems.
- Introduce development tools and best practices that accelerate drone development and support aviation-regulatory compliance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of industry experience as a software engineer, focused on backend systems, robotics, or autonomous systems.
- Strong experience developing and implementing path-planning algorithms.
- Experience with simulations and testing frameworks for robotics or autonomous systems.
- Experience with Kotlin or C++.
- Experience improving the efficiency, scalability, and stability of distributed systems in real-time operational contexts.
- Experience with service-oriented architecture, REST APIs, unit testing, and architectural design.
- Understanding of networking and communication protocols relevant to robotics and IoT, including TCP/IP, UDP, or MQTT.
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with aviation regulations and safety standards such as FAA Part 107 is preferred.
- Familiarity with gRPC, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, ROS, robotics middleware, geospatial data, or mapping technologies is helpful but not required.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching, medical, dental, and vision insurance, disability and basic life insurance, and family-forming assistance.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave, paid time off, paid sick leave, 11 paid holidays, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, and mental health support.
- Flexible paid time off and 80 hours of paid sick time annually for salaried roles.
- Equity grant opportunities are available in addition to base salary.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendRobotics
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.