Electrical Engineer - Consumer Electronics

DoorDash, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

401(k) with employer matching

Paid parental leave (16 weeks)

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off & sick leave

Job summary

DoorDash, Inc. is seeking a Senior/Staff electrical and firmware engineer to own connected devices from concept through field deployment and production handoff. You will design boards, write firmware, and bring devices like tablets, POS systems, peripherals, and robotics applications to scale.

We expect deep experience in embedded C/C++, system architecture, and board bring‑up, with prior success shipping hardware from prototype to production. A senior, build‑heavy role on a small team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands‑on product‑development experience spanning electrical hardware and embedded firmware.
• Have designed a board and written its production firmware on the same product.
• Hands‑on depth in compute‑based board design, embedded C/C++, board bring‑up, and hardware debugging.
• Able to independently develop a system architecture from incomplete requirements.

Responsibilities

• Translate user and business needs into an integrated electrical and firmware architecture.
• Design compute‑based, mixed‑signal boards with processors, power, sensors, wireless, and peripherals.
• Develop embedded firmware using bare metal, FreeRTOS, embedded Linux, or Android as needed.
• Lead board bring‑up, validation, and troubleshooting with lab tools.
• Prototype with new sensors and run experiments to verify signals are reliable.
• Own the full lifecycle of hardware from concept to production handoff.
• Collaborate across teams to balance speed, reliability, cost, and user experience.
• Contribute across programs including merchant hardware and robotics efforts.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

Board bring-up

System architecture

Hardware debugging

Firmware development

Independent judgment

Power systems

Wireless & sensors

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Spectrum analyzers

Network analyzers

Job description

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

We're excited about you because…

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands‑on product‑development 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 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.

Statement of Non-Discrimination

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on "protected categories," we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non‑conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently‑abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non‑discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.