Electrical Engineer, Consumer Electronics (San Francisco)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike.

Key responsibilities

• Own connected devices from an ambiguous product need through field deployment
• Work across the hardware and firmware boundary instead of handing work between specialists
• Explore uncertain product ideas through rapid prototypes and experiments
• Make consequential tradeoffs on a small, senior team with direct exposure to users and field behavior
• Translate user and business needs into an integrated electrical and firmware architecture
• Design compute-based, mixed-signal boards incorporating processors, power systems, sensors, wireless connectivity, displays, and other peripherals

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 8+ years of hands-on product-development experience spanning electrical hardware and embedded firmware
• Taken customer-facing or field-deployed hardware from early concept through production, with experience scaling designs beyond initial deployments
• Personally designed a board and written its production firmware on the same product
• Hands-on depth in compute-based board design, embedded C/C++, board bring-up, and hardware debugging
• Independently develop a system architecture from incomplete requirements

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California

Salary and benefits

US base salary $170,000 to $250,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.