Electrical Engineer, Intern, Labs, Summer 2027 (Oakland)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. DoorDash Labs is DoorDash's autonomous delivery group, building the robots and hardware that move goods without a driver. The Vehicle Electrical team designs the electronics at the core of these systems, including power and motor-control electronics, charging, and the test benches that prove the whole system works.

Key responsibilities

• Own an end-to-end project in one of three areas: an on-board charger prototype, an in-house motor control circuit, or a full-power hardware test bench
• Design, build, and bring up hardware, from schematic and component selection through prototype assembly and debug
• Characterize your design on the bench with lab equipment, measuring efficiency, thermal, and control performance against requirements
• Collaborate with power electronics, firmware, and test engineers, and incorporate design review feedback into your work
• Document your results and present your findings to the team at the end of your internship

Requirements

• Available for a May or June 2027 start date (Internships are only hosted during the Summer)
• Coursework or project experience in power electronics, including switch-mode converters (buck, boost, PFC, isolated DC-DC), gate drive, magnetics
• Understand motor control fundamentals, including BLDC/PMSM drives, inverter half-bridges, field-oriented control, and current and position sensing
• Understand analog and feedback-control fundamentals, including op-amp sensing circuits, ADC signal conditioning, loop compensation
• Capture schematics and lay out PCBs in a tool such as Altium or KiCad, with awareness of high-current layout, thermal, and EMC considerations
• Understand lithium-ion battery charging (CC/CV profiles, protection limits) and how a battery management system interfaces with a charger or load

Location and schedule

• Onsite in Oakland, California
• You are able to work onsite at our Oakland, CA office

Salary and benefits

US base salary $107,400 to $158,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.