Electrical Engineer - Consumer Electronics

DoorDash USA; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 170 000 - 250 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off and holidays

Wellness benefits

Résumé du poste

DoorDash USA is seeking a Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer to own end-to-end hardware and firmware for connected consumer and enterprise devices. You will design boards, write production firmware and take products through bring-up, validation and production handoff.

You will collaborate across mechanical, software, product, and operations to balance speed, reliability, cost and user experience while shaping multiple programs including merchant hardware and robotics initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on hardware and embedded firmware development.
• Experience taking hardware through production from concept to scale.
• Designed a board and wrote its production firmware.
• Deep experience in compute-based board design, embedded C/C++, bring-up and debugging.
• Ability to derive system architecture from incomplete requirements.
• Experience with power, wireless, sensors and interfaces.
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment.

Responsabilités

• Translate user and business needs into an electrical and firmware architecture.
• Design compute-based boards with processors, power, sensors, wireless, displays and peripherals.
• Develop embedded firmware using bare metal, FreeRTOS, embedded Linux, or Android.
• Lead board bring-up, validation and debugging with lab tools (O-scope, analyzers, etc.).
• Prototype with new sensors and run experiments to extract reliable signals.
• Own full lifecycle of electrical hardware from concept to production handoff.
• Collaborate with mechanical, software, product and operations teams, balancing speed, reliability, cost and manufacturability.
• Contribute across programs including merchant hardware and robotics efforts.

Connaissances

Embedded C/C++

Board bring-up

Hardware debugging

System architecture

Product development

Formation

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Outils

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Spectrum analyzers

PCB design tools

Description du poste

Electrical Engineer - Consumer Electronics

About the Team

DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior/Staff electrical and firmware engineer who designs the board and writes the firmware for connected consumer and enterprise devices, including tablets, POS systems, peripherals, and emerging robotics applications.

In this role, you will take connected devices from ambiguous user or business needs through system architecture, rapid prototyping, board design, firmware implementation, bring-up, field deployment, and production transition.

The ideal candidate has a passion for building and shipping reliable hardware at scale and thrives in an environment that demands technical depth and high-quality execution across multiple concurrent programs. This is a build-heavy role on a small, senior team.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will...

Own connected devices end to end, including:

• Own connected devices from an ambiguous product need through field deployment.
• Work across the hardware and firmware boundary instead of handing work between specialists.
• Explore uncertain product ideas through rapid prototypes and experiments.
• Make consequential tradeoffs on a small, senior team with direct exposure to users and field behavior.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate user and business needs into an integrated electrical and firmware architecture.
• Design compute-based, mixed-signal boards incorporating processors, power systems, sensors, wireless connectivity, displays, and other peripherals.
• Develop embedded firmware, selecting bare metal, FreeRTOS, embedded Linux, or Android based on product needs.
• Lead board bring-up, validation, and troubleshooting using lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, etc.).
• Prototype with new sensors and run experiments to determine whether useful, reliable signals can be extracted.
• Own the full lifecycle of electrical hardware from concept, schematic capture, layout review, through bring-up, validation, certification, and production handoff.
• Collaborate with mechanical, software, product, and operations partners while making tradeoffs among speed, reliability, cost, manufacturability, and user experience.
• Contribute across multiple programs - including merchant-facing hardware and emerging automation or robotics efforts - as business needs evolve.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on product-dedevelopment experience spanning electrical hardware and embedded firmware.
• You have taken customer-facing or field-deployed hardware from early concept through production, with experience scaling designs beyond initial deployments.
• You have personally designed a board and written its production firmware on the same product. This is the core requirement: genuine dual capability, not adjacency to it.
• You have hands-on depth in compute-based board design, embedded C/C++, board bring-up, and hardware debugging.
• You can independently develop a system architecture from incomplete requirements.
• You have sufficient experience across power, wireless, sensors, and interfaces to lead the whole electrical system.
• Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing tablets, POS systems, or other connected consumer/enterprise devices.
• Experience with regulatory compliance and certification processes (FCC, CE, etc.).
• Exposure to electromechanical or robotics systems.
• You’ve shipped hardware at scale in customer-facing products.
• You are an engineer in your personal life and have the projects to prove it.
• Have worked with in-house and contract manufacturing teams.
• Thrive in high-integrity, fast-paced, high-ownership environments and care deeply about craftsmanship.
• Live and breathe extreme ownership.

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. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

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.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here .

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

$170,000 - $250,000 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