About the Team

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We are working on building autonomous delivery robots from the ground-up as part of DoorDash's core delivery platform. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you!

About the Role

We’re hiring a Simulation Infrastructure Software Engineer. In this role, you’ll work with multiple stakeholders including Product, Engineering, and Operations to develop and improve our simulation infrastructure. You’ll be researching, designing and implementing solutions to enable large scale simulation for autonomous vehicle testing.

You’re excited about the role because

• Play an integral role on a small and focused team
• Design and implement infrastructure to enable autonomous vehicle simulation. Including:
• Large-scale distributed simulation execution
• Scenario mining & management
• Tooling for result reporting, triage & analysis 
• Design and implement robot data and metrics pipelines 
• Collaborate with autonomy teams to contribute to ensuring the safety of our autonomous vehicles.

We’re excited about you because…

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics or related technical field
• 4 years of experience as a software engineer
• In-depth knowledge of data structures and advanced algorithms.
• Strong python programming experience
• Experience with distributed data processing
• Experience using SQL to ask pointed questions from large, semi structured data sets
• Nice to have:
• C experience
• SQL
• Robotics domain experience/knowledge

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