Mechanical Engineer, Consumer Electronics (San Francisco)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact.

Key responsibilities

• Help define product requirements and features from customer needs and business priorities
• Build prototypes for new product ideas, partner on pilot design, and turn findings from real use into requirements and designs for larger pilots
• Create CAD, drawings, and physical prototypes; choose materials, components, and fabrication methods appropriate to the development stage
• Apply mechanical fundamentals, tolerance analysis, and targeted calculations or simulation to the risks that matter
• Integrate mechanical designs with electronics, sensors, and firmware, and debug problems across those interfaces with teammates
• Serve as the mechanical engineering lead with manufacturing partners during NPI: investigate mechanical and build-quality issues

Requirements

• Hands-on experience taking a physical product or subsystem from incomplete requirements through mechanical design, prototyping, debugging
• Strong mechanical design fundamentals, including materials and process selection, fit and tolerances, assembly
• Proficiency with a mechanical CAD package such as SolidWorks, Creo, NX, or equivalent, and the ability to create drawings
• Question requirements, understand the customer problem, and explain technical choices in terms of cost, usability, performance, and business value
• Ability to operate independently through ambiguity, prioritize work, and communicate decisions and risks clearly
• Experience collaborating with suppliers or manufacturing partners and with engineers from other disciplines

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California
• San Francisco-based candidates are preferred; hybrid arrangements are acceptable. The role includes hands-on collaboration around prototypes and lab work

Salary and benefits

US base salary $139,400 to $205,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.