Autonomy Platform Engineer

DoorDash ANZ; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer matching

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits match

Job summary

DoorDash Labs is hiring an Autonomy Platform Engineer to build the foundational software for the autonomy stack across robot and compute platforms. The role spans embedded Linux, robotics middleware, and system observability, with responsibilities from bringing up new hardware to reliable deployment and validation across robot generations.

You will collaborate with autonomy, firmware, electrical, hardware, manufacturing, and validation teams, reporting to the Autonomy Platform Lead.

Qualifications

• Strong production C++ and Python experience.
• Experience with embedded Linux, robotics, or complex mechatronic systems.
• Knowledge of OS, concurrency, networking, middleware, drivers, or real-time performance.
• Experience debugging across multiple software and hardware layers.
• Experience with profiling, tracing, observability, automated testing and CI.
• Familiarity with Bazel and Git; modern software-development practices.
• ROS/ROS2 or comparable robotics middleware experience preferred.
• Bonus: cross-disciplinary collaboration and clear communication across domains.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain core runtime, middleware, and platform services used by autonomy apps.
• Enable new compute, camera, lidar, and other sensor platforms.
• Improve orchestration, messaging, startup/shutdown behavior, and resource isolation.
• Develop system observability, tracing, performance measurement, diagnostics, and regression testing.
• Build data capture, replay, and debugging workflows.
• Create provisioning, packaging, deployment, integration-test, and platform-readiness tooling.
• Lead complex debugging across app, middleware, OS, driver, networking, timing and hardware boundaries.

Skills

C++

Python

Embedded Linux

Robotics middleware

Tools

Bazel

Git

ROS/ROS2

Job description

About the Team

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. 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 are hiring an Autonomy Platform Engineer to build and evolve the foundational software that runs our autonomy stack across robot and compute platforms. The Autonomy Platform team works across embedded Linux, compute and sensor enablement, robotics middleware, process orchestration, data capture and replay, system observability, and performance.

You will develop production software and tooling that enables autonomy engineers to bring up new hardware, deploy services reliably, diagnose failures, and validate system performance across robot generations. You will work closely with autonomy, firmware, electrical, hardware, manufacturing, and validation engineers and report to the Autonomy Platform Lead. We expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Build and maintain core runtime, middleware, and platform services used by autonomy applications.
• Enable new compute, camera, lidar, and other sensor platforms.
• Improve process orchestration, messaging, configuration, startup and shutdown behavior, resource isolation, and fault recovery.
• Develop system observability, tracing, performance measurement, diagnostics, and regression-detection capabilities.
• Build reliable data capture, replay, and debugging workflows.
• Create provisioning, packaging, deployment, integration-test, and platform-readiness tooling.
• Lead complex debugging across application, middleware, OS, driver, networking, timing, and hardware boundaries.

We’re excited about you because…

• Strong production C++ and Python experience.
• Experience with embedded Linux, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex mechatronic systems.
• Solid understanding of several of these areas: operating systems, concurrency, networking, middleware, drivers, GPU acceleration, storage, or real-time performance.
• Experience debugging complex problems across multiple software and hardware layers.
• Experience with profiling, tracing, observability, automated testing, and CI.
• Familiarity with Bazel, Git, and modern software-development practices.
• ROS/ROS2 or comparable robotics middleware experience is preferred.
• Bonus: You have experience collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams spanning software, controls, and hardware, and can communicate technical details across domains effectively.

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.

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.

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 ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

I4

$137,400—$202,000 USD

I5

$168,000—$247,000 USD

I6

$198,600—$292,000 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 reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

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