About this role
About the Team
DoorDash’s mission is to empower local economies. In the Applied AI srole, you will be at the absolute forefront of agentic technology, building sophisticated AI agents end-to-end to help businesses grow, create deeply personalized customer experiences, and optimize our global logistics system at an unprecedented scale.
We have an applied AI lab at DoorDash, which is a team that is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This team is for builders who want to see their work directly impact millions of consumers, merchants, and dashers every day. We operate with a flat structure - everyone is expected to be hands-on and contribute directly to the mission. Initiative and consistent delivery are how people grow and lead here.
About the Role
You'll work directly with our cofounder with direct ownership over the direction of AI research at DoorDash. In this role, you will build sophisticated AI agents end-to-end and develop robust evaluation methods to measure and improve agent performance. You will design systems and algorithms to enhance capability, as well as collect and curate human and synthetic data to optimize the behavior of these agent systems. This is hands-on work with immediate product impact at real-world scale.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
• Work directly with leadership and see your research deployed at real-world scale - small team, massive reach.
• Move fast without bureaucracy - rapid iteration, high autonomy, and no layers of politics.
• Have access to global data scale, robust compute, and a platform primed for AI transformation.
• Shape how AI transforms commerce, building intelligent and adaptive experiences for millions of Consumers, Merchants, and Dashers.
We're excited about you because you have…
• Experience with the latest AI tools building AI products
• Familiarity with building agent solutions, including context management, defining evals, measuring performance
• Shipped a production AI agent or something similar
• Experience at frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind) or top AI startups.
• A builder mindset - you're energized by experimentation, move quickly, and stay close to the work
• Strong cross-functional instincts and a natural ability to bring research and product teams together.
Notice Regarding Use of AI and Automated Tools: To streamline our hiring process, DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Gem.
How it works: Gem assists our recruiting team by evaluating job related qualifications and characteristics in connection with hiring. The tool is designed and used to support - rather than replace - human decision-making; trained personnel make final decisions with meaningful human review and oversight, and DoorDash does not use Gem or other AI-enabled tool in a manner that has the effect of subjecting applicants or employees to discrimination based on any protected characteristic or pro