About the Team

DoorDash Labs is a team within DoorDash building autonomous delivery robots and other autonomy solutions from the ground up for DoorDash's core delivery platform. If you have a passion for applying autonomy and robotics in a service used by millions of people daily, then we want to talk to you!

About the Role

As a Software TPM at DoorDash Labs you will play a central role within the robot operations team at DoorDash Labs as we scale and optimize last-mile deliveries using autonomy.

You will report to the manager of our growing Program Management team and will interface with operations, hardware, service, software, autonomy, safety and testing teams on a daily basis. This role is a hybrid role and requires being on site 1-2 days per week.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Be part of an exciting effort to develop and manufacture an autonomous delivery robot
• Work with our Autonomous Software teams in the Bay Area
• Program manage and help lead development for our cutting edge software within Simulation & Mapping
• Drive completion of autonomy features from requirements or engineering concept to validated public roads driving readiness
• Work with leaders and engineers across Product, DevOps, Hardware, Software, Firmware, Controls, AI and Ops to plan, track, follow up and resolve issues

We're excited about you because you have… 

• A B.S., M.S., or PhD. in engineering, e.g. robotics, mechanical, electrical or computer science
• 8 years of industry experience working in engineering and program management 
• In-depth experience with the software development life cycle
• Demonstrated success taking software products from concept to production
• A track record of managing complex, cross-functional programs with significant ambiguity and on track delivery of programs
• The ability to operate from a deep technical level all the way up to providing comprehensive program status to executive leadership
• In-depth understanding of autonomy feature validation strategies in simulation, closed course testing and on public roads
• Strong familiarity with program management tools, such as 
• Jira
• Confluence
• Smartsheet/MS Project
• Google Workplace applications

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