Drone Autonomy: Flight Planning & Controls Engineer

DoorDash, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 199 000 - 292 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity grants

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Healthcare benefits

Résumé du poste

DoorDash Labs is expanding its Autonomy Software team and seeks a Planning & Controls Engineer who will own flight control, motion planning, and mission planning algorithms for drone delivery. You will design controllers, implement in C++ on embedded platforms, and validate through flight testing.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, dynamics modeling, and testing across new drone platforms, with opportunities for equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Develop and tune low-level flight control algorithms for multirotor and hybrid aircraft on embedded platforms.
• Design controllers and planning algorithms; test them in flight and iterate.
• Experience with motion planning algorithms and state estimation for autonomous flight.

Responsabilités

• Develop and tune flight controllers for autonomous drones on embedded hardware.
• Implement and test controllers, flight dynamics models, and simulation workflows.
• Contribute to high-level mission planning and trajectory optimization.

Connaissances

C++

Embedded systems

Controls fundamentals

Motion planning

State estimation

Dynamics modeling

Formation

MS/PhD in EE/ME/CS/Robotics

Outils

PX4 internals

A*/D*/RRT variants

Model Predictive Controller (MPC)

Description du poste

DoorDash Labs is expanding its Autonomy Software team and seeks a Planning & Controls Engineer who will own flight control, motion planning, and mission planning algorithms for drone delivery. You will design controllers, implement in C++ on embedded platforms, and validate through flight testing.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, dynamics modeling, and testing across new drone platforms, with opportunities for equity and a comprehensive benefits package.