GeoSpatial Engineer, DoorDash Air, 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're hiring a geospatial software engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Ingest and process data like terrain, sensor logs, point clouds, and building footprints
• Analyze Complex 3D Environments: Develop spatial algorithms to classify terrain and detect obstacles, ensuring safe
• Design and scale high-performance spatial data storage and retrieval systems to handle the growing throughput demands of our expanding fleet
• Build high-performance map services (Vector Tiles, APIs) to render complex 3D environments

Requirements

• In Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years of industry experience as a geospatial engineer
• Experience with scientific Python and geospatial data science
• Knowledge of Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) and associated transformations
• Expert-level skills with PostGIS (or equivalent) for managing complex geometries and spatial relationships
• Comfortable writing logic to solve geometric problems (e.g., "Does this 3D trajectory intersect with this static obstacle?")

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California

Salary and benefits

US base salary $193,800 to $285,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.