What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Autonomy & Robotics position at DoorDash USA?
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 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
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