Hybrid Autonomy Platform Engineer for Robotics Stack

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer matching

Paid parental leave (16 weeks)

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits match

Paid time off and paid sick leave

Job summary

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

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

Qualifications

• Proven production C++ and Python experience.
• Experience with embedded Linux and robotics.
• Understanding OS, concurrency, networking, drivers, 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 and Git; ROS/ROS2 preferred.

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.

Skills

C++

Python

Embedded Linux

Robotics

ROS/ROS2

Debugging

Profiling & Observability

Bazel & Git

Concurrency & OS

Tools

Bazel

Git

Job description

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

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