Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Autonomy & Robotics

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 team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We’re hiring an Infrastructure Software Engineer. In this role, you’ll work with multiple stakeholders including Product, Engineering, and Operations to develop and improve our infrastructure. The Infrastructure team designs, builds, and operates the infrastructure that enables large scale simulation testing, continuous integration, and machine learning. You’re excited about the role because you will… Have significant scope and decision-making responsibility 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 We’re excited about you because you have… 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 have: C++ SQL Kubernetes Docker Terraform Experience with GPU-accelerated systems Robotics domain experience/knowledge Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities. Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023, and resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: Covey Compensation The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future. In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information. DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health ... (truncated, view full listing at source)