Machine Learning Engineer - ETA Team

DoorDash USASunnyvale, CA
Onsite

About The Position

Join us in building the world's most reliable on-demand logistics engine for delivery! We are bringing on a talented Machine Learning Engineer to help us develop and improve the ETA models that power DoorDash's three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. As a fundamental area of investment for DoorDash, ETA has among the coolest problems to solve at scale and creates a major impact on the company and its businesses. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will have the opportunity to leverage our robust data and machine learning infrastructure to develop inference and optimization ETA models that impact millions of users across our three audiences and tackle our most challenging business problems. You will work with other data scientists, engineers, and product managers to develop and iterate on models to help us grow our business and provide better service quality for our customers.

Requirements

  • 1+ years of industry experience post PhD or 3+ years of industry experience post graduate degree of developing advanced machine learning models with business impact.
  • M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Statistics, or other related quantitative fields.
  • Strong background in Deep Learning and OSS ML technologies such as Spark, PyTorch, Airflow with hands-on experience in production.
  • Demonstrated expertise with programming languages e.g. python and machine learning libraries e.g., Spark MLLib, PyTorch, etc.
  • Deep understanding of complex systems such as Marketplaces, and domain knowledge in two or more of the following: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Operations Research / Optimization, and LLM.
  • Experience of shipping production-grade ML models and optimization systems, and designing sophisticated experimentation techniques.
  • You are located or are planning to relocate to San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, or Seattle, WA.

Responsibilities

  • Build Deep Learning models for next-generation ETA that provide the most accurate, scalable and robust time predictions and enhance the consumer, merchant, and dasher experience.
  • Own the modeling life cycle end-to-end, including feature creation, model development and testing, experimentation, monitoring and explainability, and model maintenance.
  • Being exposed to new opportunities where ETA can be used as a lever that benefits new business, new markets, and new regions.

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, dental, and vision benefits
  • 11 paid holidays
  • disability and basic life insurance
  • family-forming assistance
  • mental health program
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