Applied AI Engineer — End-to-End AI Agents

DoorDash, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 204,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Job summary

DoorDash’s Applied AI Lab is seeking a hands-on researcher to build AI agents end-to-end and shape evaluation methods. You will own the direction of AI research with leadership and deploy impactful systems at global scale.

Collaborating with product and engineering, you’ll collect data, improve agent behavior, and ship practical AI features that touch millions of consumers, merchants, and dashers every day.

Qualifications

• Experience with the latest AI tools building AI products.
• Familiarity with building agent solutions, including context management, evals, performance.
• Shipped a production AI agent or similar.
• Experience at frontier labs or top AI startups.
• Builder mindset with rapid experimentation and delivery.
• Strong cross-functional instincts to bridge research and product.

Responsibilities

• Build sophisticated AI agents end-to-end with immediate product impact.
• Develop robust evaluation methods to measure and improve agent performance.
• Design systems and algorithms to enhance capability.
• Collect and curate human and synthetic data to optimize agent behavior.
• Collaborate with leadership and engineering to deploy at scale.

Skills

AI tools experience

Agent solutions

Production AI

Cross-functional collaboration

Fast iteration

Builder mindset

Job description

DoorDash’s Applied AI Lab is seeking a hands-on researcher to build AI agents end-to-end and shape evaluation methods. You will own the direction of AI research with leadership and deploy impactful systems at global scale.

Collaborating with product and engineering, you’ll collect data, improve agent behavior, and ship practical AI features that touch millions of consumers, merchants, and dashers every day.