Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering, DoorDash Air

Doordashusa; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 231,200 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

401(k) with employer matching

Paid parental leave

Job summary

DoorDash Labs is seeking a Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering to define how we manufacture and assemble our autonomous food delivery platform, from structures to propulsion and sensors. The role spans hands-on shop floor work and supplier engagement to scale from prototype to high-volume production.

You will influence design for manufacturability, set up MES, and drive quality, cost, and yield improvements while building a scalable team around you.

Qualifications

• Strong mechanical engineering background with hands-on ownership of manufacturing processes and equipment.
• Direct experience taking a product from prototype to high-volume production.
• Experience with electric propulsion and powertrains; electrical fluency across mechanical/electrical boundary.
• Proven ability to qualify suppliers and drive quality improvements.
• Thrives in a scrappy startup: comfortable with ambiguity and hard problems.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end manufacturing process and equipment—from incoming components through final assembly and functional test.
• Select and stand up the MES, and build traceability and serialization across the vehicle.
• Qualify and hold suppliers and contract manufacturers to a high bar through on-site visits and audits.
• Own the metrics that matter—yield, cost per unit, throughput, scrap/rework—and drive them with data.
• Hire, mentor, and grow the team as the company scales.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Manufacturing leadership

Design for manufacturability

Electromechanical systems

Supplier management

Data-driven decision making

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

MES (Manufacturing Execution System)

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 hiring a Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering to own the process and equipment behind how our autonomous food delivery platform gets built. You'll define how we manufacture and assemble every major system: structures, propulsion, energy systems, controllers, sensing and perception—and build the team to scale from prototype into high‑volume production.

You’ll work hands‑on across the shop floor and out at suppliers, driving quality and best practices that stick. This is for someone who thrives in a fast‑moving startup environment, is comfortable as the technical authority today while hiring the team that grows around them tomorrow, and gets excited about solving hard problems. You’ll get in at the ground floor with the chance to shape how the next generation of food delivery vehicles are engineered and built.

You're excited about this opportunity because …

• Own the end‑to‑end manufacturing process and equipment—from incoming components through final assembly and functional test—including the tooling, fixtures, and work instructions that make it repeatable.
• Work directly with design engineers to influence design for manufacturability early, so every major system is optimized for cost, yield, and assembly before it reaches the floor.
• Select and stand up the right manufacturing execution system (MES), and build in traceability and serialization across the entire vehicle.
• Qualify and hold suppliers and contract manufacturers to a high bar through on‑site visits and process audits.
• Own the metrics that matter—first‑pass yield, cost per unit, throughput, scrap/rework—using data and structured problem‑solving to drive them.
• Hire, mentor, and grow the team, serving as the technical authority on process changes as we scale.

We're excited about you because …

• Strong mechanical engineering background with hands‑on ownership of manufacturing processes and equipment for complex, multi‑system electromechanical products.
• Direct experience taking a product from prototype into high‑volume production.
• Experience with electric propulsion and powertrains, and enough electrical fluency to work across the mechanical/electrical boundary.
• Proven ability to qualify and develop suppliers and contract manufacturers and drive quality and yield improvements.
• Comfortable improving how things are built. Making designs simpler to assemble, reducing waste and cost, and getting to the bottom of quality problems rather than patching symptoms.
• Thrives in a scrappy startup: comfortable with ambiguity, building from zero, and taking on hard problems.

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.

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).

$231,200 — $340,000 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.