Hardware Integration Engineer
About The Position
We are hiring a Hardware Systems Integration Engineer for our Platform Integration team. In this role, you will own the bring-up, integration, and validation of complex robotic hardware systems, ensuring electrical, mechanical, firmware, and subsystems operate reliably as one cohesive platform. You will work hands-on with sensors, compute, power systems, harnesses, embedded controllers, drive systems, and thermal devices. You will define subsystem interfaces, build test setups, debug hardware/software integration issues, and verify platform readiness before validation, manufacturing, or mission use. You will report to the Autonomy Platform Lead on our Autonomy Platform Team at DoorDash Labs. We expect this role to be fully onsite.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in hardware systems integration, vehicle bring-up, hardware validation, or complex mechatronics systems.
- Hands-on experience debugging electrical, communication, signal integrity, timing, or power issues.
- Can read schematics, wiring diagrams, interface specifications, board documentation, and mechanical drawings.
- Comfortable using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, digital multimeters, power supplies, CAN tools, and other diagnostic equipment.
- Can troubleshoot digital electronics, embedded peripherals, and hardware interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, Ethernet, USB, and GPIO.
- Can use Python, Linux shell scripts, Git, logs, and diagnostic tools to run tests, automate workflows, and analyze results.
Nice To Haves
- Experience taking robotic or electromechanical hardware through prototype bring-up, validation, manufacturing test, reliability testing, or field failure analysis.
Responsibilities
- Play an integral role on a small, focused team building robotic platforms from prototype through deployment readiness.
- Support early integration of new hardware subsystem designs by defining electrical, mechanical, firmware interface requirements, integration risks, dependencies, and hardware validation checks.
- Integrate and debug hardware interfaces across vehicle controls, power distribution, motion control, sensor systems, embedded platforms, and communication buses.
- Develop physical test setups, bench rigs, diagnostic workflows, and wiring harnesses to exercise integrated robot subsystems.
- Use lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, power supplies, and bus diagnostic tools to root-cause electrical, timing, signal integrity, and communication issues.
- Develop and execute validation procedures to stress-test integrated systems, including battery, drivetrain, thermal, sensor, and embedded controller subsystems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify edge cases and integration issues that impact platform safety, performance, and functionality.
- Document integration procedures, test results, known issues, and platform readiness for downstream validation and manufacturing teams.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability insurance
- Basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
- Equity grants
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
