Flight Test Engineer, DoorDash Air (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

• Plan, scope, and execute flight tests to evaluate vehicle performance, control behavior, and system reliability
• Act as the primary interface between engineering and flight test operations, translating technical requirements into test objectives
• Analyze flight test data to assess vehicle dynamics, control performance, and subsystem interactions, providing actionable insights
• Develop and maintain Python- and SQL-based analysis tools for flight data visualization, trend detection, and performance assessment
• Use SIL and HIL environments to validate software updates, control algorithms, and sensor integrations to derisk flight test
• Identify and quantify failures, performance deviations, and reliability trends from test data to drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement

Requirements

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or a related engineering discipline
• Strong foundation in flight test engineering, including test planning, instrumentation, flight test data reduction, and safe test execution
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data analysis, tooling, and automation, with experience building reusable libraries or analysis frameworks
• Comfortable with Git-based version control and collaborative software development workflows
• Familiarity with C++ codebases - primarily reading and reviewing embedded or autonomy code - is a plus
• Experience with electric aircraft systems, including battery modeling, motor performance characterization, or electric propulsion integration

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California

Salary and benefits

US base salary $159,800 to $235,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.