Software Engineer, Planning & Controls, Autonomy & Robotics

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 explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term.

Key responsibilities

• Play an integral role on a small and focused team
• Develop and tune low-level flight control algorithms for overactuated multirotor and hybrid aircraft on embedded platforms
• Own the dynamics simulation and aerodynamics modeling of the aircraft
• Bring up and tune flight controllers on new drone platforms
• Develop, tune, and test fault-tolerant control (loss of one or more motors, safe landing, emergency behaviors)
• Build a trajectory motion planner for smooth flight and obstacle avoidance within the operating envelope

Requirements

• Linear and nonlinear systems, stability analysis, controller synthesis and tuning, frequency domain analysis, optimization, and linear algebra
• Excellent knowledge of C++ and embedded systems
• Dynamics modeling and simulation experience with aerodynamics knowledge
• Experience developing and tuning flight controllers, interfacing with state estimation
• Excellent knowledge of motion planning algorithms (trajectory optimization and nonlinear optimization, A*/D*/RRT variants)
• Experience with sensorless brushless DC motor control

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California
• Develop and tune low-level flight control algorithms for overactuated multirotor and hybrid aircraft on embedded platforms
• Experience with hybrid VTOL transition control

Salary and benefits

US base salary $198,600 to $292,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.