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Machine Learning Engineer - New Verticals Catalog

DoorDash
DoorDash Salary
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2025

About the Team

Come help us build the world's most reliable on-demand, logistics engine for last-mile grocery and retail delivery! We're looking for a skilled machine learning engineer to help us develop the cutting-edge NLP and product knowledge graph models that power DoorDash's growing grocery and retail business.

About the Role

We’re looking for a passionate Applied Machine Learning engineer to join our team. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will conceptualize, design, implement, and validate algorithmic improvements to the catalog system and our product knowledge graph, which is at the heart of our fast-growing grocery and retail delivery business. You will use our robust data and machine learning infrastructure to implement new ML solutions to make our product knowledge graph accurate, standardized, semantically rich, easily discoverable, and extensible. We’re looking for someone with a command of production-level machine learning and experience with solving end-user problems who enjoys collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.

You will report into the engineering manager on our New Verticals, Catalog ML team. We expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

  • Develop production machine learning solutions to solve catalog building and quality problems such as entity recognition, entity resolution, attribute extraction, category classification, and image classification.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and business strategy leaders to help shape our ML-driven product roadmap and grow a multi-billion dollar retail delivery business.
  • Find new ways to use diverse data sources, intuitive models, and flexible experimentation to create a world-class shopping and dashing experience.

We're excited about you because you have…

  • 1 years of industry experience post PhD or 3 years of industry experience post graduate degree of developing machine learning models with business impact.
  • Experience with machine learning methods in building product knowledge graphs.
  • Machine learning background in Python; experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar frameworks and familiarity with Natural Language Processing (LLM, Entity Recognition, Entity Resolution, Classification), and Graph-based Models.
  • M.S., or PhD. in Statistics, Computer Science, Math, Operations Research, Physics, Economics, or other quantitative fields.
  • The desire for impact with a growth-minded and collaborative mindset.
  • 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 for all regular employees that includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match, paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, and several paid holidays. Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (i.e. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act).

    Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, a commuter benefit match, and a mental health program, among others.

    To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page.

    The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Washington.

    I4 : $137,100 — $201,600 USD

    I5 : $167,800 — $246,800 USD

    I6 : $203,500 — $299,300 USD

    About DoorDash

    At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

    DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

    Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

    We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

    Statement of Non-Discrimination : In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital / domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA , American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

    Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

    If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

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    Salary : $203,500

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