About this role
About the Team
DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. 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 Robotics Infrastructure Engineer in our Autonomy Software team. In this role, you'll own, build, and manage the infrastructure that makes aerial autonomy development possible. You'll work on the onboard systems that keep a drone alive (process management, health monitoring, parameterization) and the development environment that makes the team fast (build systems, CI/CD, logging, debugging, regression testing). This is not cloud infrastructure. This is real-time, fault-tolerant, onboard software for vehicles that cannot gracefully restart at 50 meters altitude.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
• Play an integral role on a small and focused team
• Develop and own critical onboard components: process management, health monitoring, configuration management, and message passing
• Own the build system (C++, Python) and middleware layer (ROS2), including cross-compilation for Jetson targets
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and regression testing infrastructure
• Build and manage the parameterization system, including schema definition, validation, migration, and deployment
• Build robotics logging, plotting, and debugging tools that make the entire team more productive
• Work closely with the simulation team to support SIL/HIL development workflows
• Define reliability standards for onboard software: watchdogs, failover, and graceful degradation
We're excited about you because…
• You have prior experience at a robotics company in a similar infrastructure role
• You have experience with robotics middleware (ROS2, LCM, eCal, Apex.AI)
• You have experience with build systems and package managers (CMake, Bazel, Nix, Conan)
• You have experience with NVidia Jetson and JetPack
• You have experience with robotics logging and visualization (RViz, Foxglove, Rerun, Plotly)
• You have strong C++ and Python skills, and you're comfortable with systems-level debugging
• You love diving into build system and compiler internals (LLVM, linker behavior, optimization passes)
• You want to own and define a critical layer of infrastructure, not just contribute to one
• You get excited about rendering and plotting robot internals, and you treat observability as a first-class problem
• You're driven by a passion for delivering outstanding customer experiences
• You have a proactive approach to development, often crafting new tools
• BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, ME, Robotics, or related field
Nice to have experience includes:
•
• Experience designing fault-tolerant systems for safety-critical applications (aerospace, automotive, medical)
• Contributions to open-source robotics tooling
• Experience with deterministic repla