Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Autonomy & Robotics

About the Team

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

About the Role

We’re hiring an Infrastructure Software Engineer. In this role, you’ll work with multiple stakeholders, including Autonomy Engineering and Operations, to develop and improve our infrastructure. The Infrastructure team designs, builds, and operates the infrastructure that enables large-scale simulation testing, continuous integration, and machine learning. 

You’re excited about the role because you will…

• Have significant scope and decision-making responsibility
• Design and implement infrastructure to enable autonomous vehicle development, including:
• Large-scale distributed simulation execution
• Ingest, processing, and organization of petabyte-scale datasets
• GPU-accelerated distributed computing for data preparation and training
• Design and implement robot data and metrics pipelines 
• Collaborate with core autonomy teams: motion planning, perception, and simulation

We’re excited about you because you have…

• A B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics or related technical field
• In-depth knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Strong Python programming experience
• Experience with operationalizing large-scale systems
• Experience with at least one distributed data processing framework (Ray, Spark, Flink, etc)
• Passionate about software quality and reliability
• Nice to have:
• C++
• SQL
• Kubernetes 
• Docker
• Terraform
• Experience with GPU-accelerated systems
• Robotics domain experience/knowledge

 

 

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.$159,800—$235,000 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 members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursemen