Electrical Engineer - Consumer Electronics

DoorDash USA•San Francisco, CA

11h•$170,000 - $250,000

About The Position

DoorDash Labs is hiring a senior/staff electrical and firmware engineer to design boards and write firmware for connected consumer and enterprise devices, including tablets, POS systems, peripherals, and emerging robotics applications. The role takes devices from ambiguous user or business needs through system architecture, rapid prototyping, board design, firmware implementation, bring-up, field deployment, and production transition. It is a build-heavy role on a small, senior team, involving technical depth and high-quality execution across concurrent programs. The engineer owns connected devices end to end, working across the hardware and firmware boundary. They explore uncertain product ideas with prototypes and experiments, make tradeoffs with direct exposure to users and field behavior, and contribute to merchant-facing hardware and emerging automation or robotics efforts as business needs evolve.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
At least 8 years of hands-on product-development experience spanning electrical hardware and embedded firmware.
Experience taking customer-facing or field-deployed hardware from early concept through production and scaling designs beyond initial deployments.
Personally 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.
Ability to independently develop a system architecture from incomplete requirements.
Sufficient experience across power, wireless, sensors, and interfaces to lead the whole electrical system.
Comfort regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within assigned responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing tablets, POS systems, or other connected consumer or enterprise devices.
Experience with regulatory compliance and certification processes, such as FCC and CE.
Exposure to electromechanical or robotics systems.
Experience shipping hardware at scale in customer-facing products.
Personal engineering projects demonstrating hands-on work.
Experience working with in-house and contract manufacturing teams.
Thrives in high-integrity, fast-paced, high-ownership environments and cares deeply about craftsmanship.
Demonstrates extreme ownership.

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, choosing bare metal, FreeRTOS, embedded Linux, or Android according to product needs.
Lead board bring-up, validation, and troubleshooting using lab tools.
Prototype with new sensors and run experiments to determine whether useful, reliable signals can be extracted.
Own the electrical hardware lifecycle from concept and schematic capture through layout review, bring-up, validation, certification, and production handoff.
Collaborate with mechanical, software, product, and operations partners, balancing speed, reliability, cost, manufacturability, and user experience.
Contribute across multiple programs, including merchant-facing hardware and emerging automation or robotics efforts.
Own connected devices from ambiguous product needs through field deployment.
Work across hardware and firmware, explore uncertain product ideas through prototypes and experiments, and make tradeoffs on a small senior team with direct exposure to users and field behavior.