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Staff Software Technical Program Manager - Autonomy & Robotics

San Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Jun 2026

💰 $285,000/yr($193,800/yr – $285,000/yr)

About the role

About the Team

DoorDash Labs is a team within DoorDash building autonomous delivery robots and other autonomy solutions from the ground up for DoorDash's core delivery platform. If you have a passion for applying autonomy and robotics in a service used by millions of people daily, then we want to talk to you.

About the Role

As an Autonomy software TPM at DoorDash Labs you will play a central role within the robotics team at DoorDash Labs as we scale and optimize last-mile deliveries using autonomy.

You will report to the manager of our growing Technical Program Management team and will interface with autonomy teams, software, safety, and operations teams on a daily basis to drivie our autonomy stack capabilities forward. This role can be remote, with some amount of travel to our different deployment areas.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

Be part of an exciting effort to develop and manufacture an autonomous delivery robot
Work with our autonomy software teams to deliver meaningful, new autonomy features
Program manage and help lead development for our software stack within Perception, Planning, Localization, System Safety, Simulation and Remote Assistance
Drive completion of autonomy features from requirements or engineering concept to validated public roads driving
Work with leaders and engineers across Autonomy, Software, Product, QA, and Ops to plan, track, follow up and resolve issues

We're excited about you because you have…

In-depth understanding of autonomy and autonomy feature validation strategies in simulation, closed course testing, and on public roads
8+ years of industry experience working in engineering and/or program management
In-depth experience with the software development life cycle
Demonstrated success taking software products or features from concept to production
A track record of managing complex, cross-functional programs with significant ambiguity
The ability to operate from a deep technical level all the way up to providing comprehensive program status to executive leadership
A B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in STEM
Working experience with program management tools, such as

Jira
Confluence
Smartsheet/MS Project
Google Workspace applications

Compensation

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:

For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$193,800—$285,000 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team me