UTM Engineer, DoorDash Air at DoorDash (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

• Design, build, and deploy interoperable services that must pass rigorous, often open-source, conformance
• Develop novel path planning and airspace deconfliction algorithms that find safe, efficient routes through real-world, dynamic environments
• Build tools that help our teams and systems evaluate and optimize airspace efficiency and utilization
• Design integrations that connect the deconfliction stack to existing DoorDash systems, translating mission
• Collaborate closely with systems engineering, commercial operations, and flight operations to ship features that hold up in real-world flight
• Engaging with peer companies, working groups, and standards bodies to improve interoperable deployments industry-wide and help shape the

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience across the full lifecycle — design, build, deployment, and operation — of distributed systems in aviation, finance
• Built and shipped production services that had to interoperate with systems you didn't control
• Hands-on experience with path planning, routing, or deconfliction problems in real-world
• Comfortable building evaluation and analysis tooling, not just the systems being evaluated — you like giving other teams visibility into system
• Design clean integrations across organizational boundaries and translate technical system state into language that commercial, operations

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California

Salary and benefits

US base salary $163,200 to $240,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.