Autonomy Platform Engineer — Robotics Runtime & Tools

DoorDash, Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 137,000 - 292,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer match

Paid parental leave

Health insurance

Vision and dental

Commuter benefits

Job summary

DoorDash Labs is hiring an Autonomy Platform Engineer to build and evolve the foundational software that runs our autonomy stack across robot and compute platforms. You will develop production software and tooling to bring up new hardware, deploy services reliably, diagnose failures, and validate system performance across robot generations.

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

Qualifications

Strong production C++ and Python experience.
Experience with embedded Linux, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex mechatronic systems.
Familiarity with Bazel, Git, and modern software-development practices.

Responsibilities

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.