Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Autonomy & Robotics

DoorDash USA•San Francisco, CA

7h•$159,800 - $235,000

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 designing and implementing infrastructure for autonomous vehicle development, including large-scale distributed simulation execution, processing petabyte-scale datasets, and GPU-accelerated distributed computing. The engineer will also design and implement robot data and metrics pipelines and collaborate with core autonomy teams.

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, Ingest, processing, and organization of petabyte-scale datasets, 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