Base Salary
$168k - $247k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship real-time behavior and motion planning features for complex urban and suburban driving scenarios
- Lead root-cause analysis and eliminate planner-related disengagements and long-tail failures
- Build scalable evaluation, simulation, and validation frameworks for safe rollout to new geo-fenced regions
- Collaborate with perception, prediction, controls, and platform teams on end-to-end autonomy improvements
- Contribute to architecture decisions that improve planner robustness, generalization, and computational efficiency
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong C++ software engineering experience building robust, production-quality systems
- Experience developing or deploying motion planning, robotics, or real-time decision-making systems
- Comfort with data-driven evaluation, simulation, and performance metrics
- Proven track record of shipping production-level autonomy systems
- Experience with the full development lifecycle of an autonomous product
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits and 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
Tech Stack
Categories
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.