Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Autonomy & Robotics
About The Position
DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash, focused on building autonomous delivery robots from the ground-up as part of DoorDash's core delivery platform. The Infrastructure Software Engineer will work with multiple stakeholders, including Autonomy Engineering and Operations, to develop and improve the infrastructure that enables large-scale simulation testing, continuous integration, and machine learning. This role involves significant scope and decision-making responsibility in designing and implementing infrastructure for autonomous vehicle development, including large-scale distributed simulation execution, ingesting and processing petabyte-scale datasets, and GPU-accelerated distributed computing for data preparation and training. The engineer will also design and implement robot data and metrics pipelines and collaborate with core autonomy teams such as motion planning, perception, and simulation.
Requirements
- A B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics or related technical field
- In-depth knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
- Strong Python programming experience
- Experience with operationalizing large-scale systems
- Experience with at least one distributed data processing framework (Ray, Spark, Flink, etc)
- Passionate about software quality and reliability
Nice To Haves
- C++
- SQL
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Experience with GPU-accelerated systems
- Robotics domain experience/knowledge
Responsibilities
- Design and implement infrastructure to enable autonomous vehicle development, including large-scale distributed simulation execution.
- Design and implement infrastructure for ingesting, processing, and organizing petabyte-scale datasets.
- Design and implement infrastructure for GPU-accelerated distributed computing for data preparation and training.
- Design and implement robot data and metrics pipelines.
- Collaborate with core autonomy teams: motion planning, perception, and simulation.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
