UTM Engineer - DoorDash Air

The role

The Senior UTM Engineer will build core components of the internal route planning and airspace deconfliction stack. This role involves designing interoperable services, developing path planning algorithms, and building tools to optimize airspace efficiency.

What you will do

• Design, build, and deploy interoperable services.
• Develop novel path planning and airspace deconfliction algorithms.
• Build tools to evaluate and optimize airspace efficiency and utilization.
• Design integrations connecting the deconfliction stack to existing DoorDash systems.
• Collaborate with systems engineering, commercial operations, and flight operations.
• Represent DoorDash Air externally with peer companies, working groups, and standards bodies.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience across the full lifecycle of distributed systems in aviation, finance, communications, healthcare, or similar.
• Experience building and shipping production services that interoperate with external systems.
• Hands-on experience with path planning, routing, or deconfliction problems in real-world, dynamic environments.
• Ability to build evaluation and analysis tooling.
• Ability to design clean integrations across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with languages such as C++, Python, Go, or similar.
• Familiarity with real-time or fault-tolerant system design.
• BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Aerospace, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with airspace management, air traffic control, or UAS traffic management (UTM) concepts and systems.
• Experience contributing to or engaging with technical standards bodies or open-source interoperability efforts.
• Familiarity with certification-aware development processes (e.g., DO-178, ARP4761).
• Experience with real-time or embedded systems, or with systems that must degrade gracefully under partial failure.

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

About the company

DoorDash Labs is the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery.