Senior Software Engineer, Motion Planning – DoorDash Labs
DoorDash · San Francisco, CA · 311 Autonomy
About this role
DoorDash is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Data Structures. Compensation is listed at $168,000–$247,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Department
- 311 Autonomy
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Job description
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About the Team
DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior and nimble team composed of a core group of veterans from a variety of different robotics industries.
About the Role
We are seeking a seasoned Senior Planner Engineer with a proven track record of shipping production-level autonomy systems. The engineers will design, implement, and deploy behavior and motion planning algorithms that enable safe, reliable, and fully autonomous delivery. The ideal candidate has lived through the full development lifecycle of an autonomous product and intimately understands the practical challenges and trade-offs required to build planning systems that are not just novel, but robust, reliable, and performant. You will be a key technical voice, expected to solve our most critical challenges by drawing upon your extensive prior experience in the field.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Design and ship real-time behavior and motion planning features for complex urban/suburb driving scenarios.