About the Team

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We are working on building autonomous delivery robots from the ground-up and other automation solutions as part of DoorDash's core delivery platform. If you have a passion for ensuring the robotic solutions used by millions of people are secure, then we want to talk to you!

About the Role

We’re hiring a quality assurance & verification lead for our robotics development team. In this role, you’ll work with multiple stakeholders including Product, Autonomy Software Engineering, and Operations to ensure that the software that drives our robots exhibits behavior that is both safe and provides a good experience for our customers. This is a lead role. You will be expected to make individual contributions as well as grow a team focused on tackling quality assurance challenges & opportunities.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Play an integral role on a focused & talented team. 
• Lay the technical groundwork to ensure the quality of the software that drives a highly autonomous robot.  
• Collaborate with technical domain experts in Autonomy (e.g., Perception, Prediction, Planning), and Safety to solve cross-functional quality assurance challenges.
• Grow the team as necessary to meet DoorDash lab’s quality assurance needs.  

We’re excited about you because…

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics or related technical field
• 6+ years of industry experience working within the AV, Robotics, embedded systems or equivalent industry.
• Experience with C/C++ or Python.
• Experience designing verification campaigns that effectively assess the performance and functionality of highly autonomous robots.
• Experience with requirements engineering and requirements driven development.
• Experience defining and then implementing software releases processes.
• Experience managing a team.

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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 for all regular employees that includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match, paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, and several paid holidays. Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (i.e. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act).

Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, a commuter benefit match, and a mental health program, among others. 

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

The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within the United States.$231,200—$340,000 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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.