Robotics Autonomy Platform Engineer

DoorDash USA

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 168,000 - 292,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match
Paid parental leave
Wellness benefits
Commuter benefits match
Paid time off
Sick leave
Medical/Dental/Vision
Holidays

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. The team works across embedded Linux, compute and sensor enablement, robotics middleware, process orchestration, data capture and replay, system observability, and performance.

You will develop production software and tooling to bring up new hardware, deploy services reliably, diagnose failures, and validate system performance across

Qualifications

  • Strong production C++ and Python experience.
  • Experience with embedded Linux, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex mechatronic systems.
  • Familiarity with operating systems, concurrency, networking, middleware, drivers, GPU acceleration, storage, or real-time performance.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain core runtime, middleware, and platform services.
  • Enable new compute, camera, lidar, and sensor platforms.
  • Improve process orchestration, messaging, configuration, startup/shutdown behavior, resource isolation, and fault recovery.

Skills

C++
Python
Embedded Linux
ROS/ROS2
Profiling/Observability
CI/CD
Networking
Concurrency
Middleware
Debugging across layers

Tools

Bazel
Git

Job description

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. The team works across embedded Linux, compute and sensor enablement, robotics middleware, process orchestration, data capture and replay, system observability, and performance.

You will develop production software and tooling to bring up new hardware, deploy services reliably, diagnose failures, and validate system performance across

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