Autonomy Platform Engineer

The role

You will build and evolve foundational software for the autonomy stack across robot and compute platforms. This involves developing production software and tooling to enable hardware bring-up, service deployment, and system performance validation.

What you will do

• Build and maintain core runtime, middleware, and platform services used by autonomy applications.
• Enable new compute, camera, lidar, and other sensor platforms.
• Improve process orchestration, messaging, configuration, startup and shutdown behavior, resource isolation, and fault recovery.
• Develop system observability, tracing, performance measurement, diagnostics, and regression-detection capabilities.
• Build reliable data capture, replay, and debugging workflows.
• Create provisioning, packaging, deployment, integration-test, and platform-readiness tooling.
• Lead complex debugging across application, middleware, OS, driver, networking, timing, and hardware boundaries.

Required qualifications

• Strong production C++ and Python experience.
• Experience with embedded Linux, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex mechatronic systems.
• Solid understanding of operating systems, concurrency, networking, middleware, drivers, GPU acceleration, storage, or real-time performance.
• Experience debugging complex problems across multiple software and hardware layers.
• Experience with profiling, tracing, observability, automated testing, and CI.
• Familiarity with Bazel, Git, and modern software-development practices.

Nice to have

• ROS/ROS2 or comparable robotics middleware experience
• Experience collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams spanning software, controls, and hardware

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits match
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program
• Equity grants

About the company

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash that explores robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics. DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery.