Senior Software Engineer, Simulation Infrastructure, DoorDash Labs

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 a Simulation Infrastructure Software Engineer. In this role, you’ll work with multiple stakeholders including Product, Engineering, and Operations to develop and improve our simulation infrastructure. You’ll be researching, designing and implementing solutions to enable large scale simulation for autonomous vehicle testing.

You’re excited about the role because

• Play an integral role on a small and focused team
• Design and implement infrastructure to enable autonomous vehicle simulation. Including:
• Large-scale distributed simulation execution
• Scenario mining & management
• Tooling for result reporting, triage & analysis
• Design and implement robot data and metrics pipelines
• Collaborate with autonomy teams to contribute to ensuring the safety of our autonomous vehicles.

We’re excited about you because…

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics or related technical field
• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
• In-depth knowledge of data structures and advanced algorithms.
• Strong python programming experience
• Experience with distributed data processing
• Experience using SQL to ask pointed questions from large, semi structured data sets
• Nice to have:
• C++ experience
• SQL
• Robotics domain experience/knowledge

Compensation

The location-specific base salary range for this position is listed below. Compensation in other geographies may vary.

Actual compensation within the pay range will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, base salary is localized according to employee work location. Please discuss your intended work location with your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being, and that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package, for full-time employees, that includes healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan including an employer match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid time off, paid parental leave, and several paid holidays, among others.

In addition to base salary, the compensation package for this role also includes opportunities for equity grants.