Autonomy Platform Engineer at DoorDash (San Francisco)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain core runtime, middleware, and platform services used by 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 system observability, tracing, performance measurement, diagnostics, and regression-detection capabilities
• Build reliable data capture, replay, and debugging workflows
• Create provisioning, packaging, deployment, integration-test, and platform-readiness tooling

Requirements

• Strong production C++ and Python experience
• Experience with embedded Linux, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex mechatronic systems
• Solid understanding of several of these areas: operating systems, concurrency, networking, middleware, drivers, GPU acceleration, storage
• Experience debugging complex problems across multiple software and hardware layers
• Experience with profiling, tracing, observability, automated testing, and CI
• Familiarity with Bazel, Git, and modern software-development practices

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California

Salary and benefits

US base salary $137,400 to $292,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.