Senior Manufacturing Engineer, DoorDash Air (San Francisco)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. The DoorDash Air team is bringing drone delivery to reality. To make this happen, we’re building a strong electrical team to design high reliability, high power density converters, and fault-tolerant controls electronics.

Key responsibilities

• Be our first manufacturing engineer for DoorDash Air's first mass-production drone assembly line — from pilot build through full-rate production
• Apply Design for Assembly (DFA) principles in partnership with hardware
• Own Process FMEA (PFMEA) development, proactively identifying and mitigating failure modes in assembly, test
• Design and iterate on factory/line layout, workstations, and material flow to support a scalable, efficient production system
• Specify, source and/or design, and qualify assembly tooling, fixtures, and jigs, working directly with equipment vendors
• Partner cross-functionally with design, supply chain, internal production, and CMs to troubleshoot build issues and drive continuous improvement

Requirements

• A Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related engineering field
• 5+ years of manufacturing/mechanical engineering experience, ideally in high-volume electromechanical, aerospace, robotics
• Hands-on experience applying Design for Assembly (DFA) / Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles
• Experience authoring and driving Process FMEA (PFMEA) for new product introduction and ongoing productionExperience with factory/line layout design
• Experience specifying, designing, and/or sourcing assembly tooling, fixtures, and jigs
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment — building process and infrastructure from scratch

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California
• Able to travel up to 20% of the time to support CM and supplier evaluations/support

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.