About the Team

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We are working on building autonomous delivery robots from the ground-up and other automation solutions as part of DoorDash's core delivery platform. If you have a passion for ensuring the robotic solutions used by millions of people are secure, then we want to talk to you!

About the Role

We’re hiring a quality assurance & verification lead for our robotics development team. In this role, you’ll work with multiple stakeholders including Product, Autonomy Software Engineering, and Operations to ensure that the software that drives our robots exhibits behavior that is both safe and provides a good experience for our customers. This is a lead role. You will be expected to make individual contributions as well as grow a team focused on tackling quality assurance challenges & opportunities.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a focused & talented team.  Lay the technical groundwork to ensure the quality of the software that drives a highly autonomous robot.   Collaborate with technical domain experts in Autonomy (e.g., Perception, Prediction, Planning), and Safety to solve cross-functional quality assurance challenges. Grow the team as necessary to meet DoorDash lab’s quality assurance needs.   We’re excited about you because… B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Robotics or related technical field 6+ years of industry experience working within the AV, Robotics, embedded systems or equivalent industry. Experience with C/C++ or Python. Experience designing verification campaigns that effectively assess the performance and functionality of highly autonomous robots. Experience with requirements engineering and requirements driven development. Experience defining and then implementing software releases processes. Experience managing a team.

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