About the Team DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Reliability & Test Engineer to join our team. This individual will play a key role in the development and validation of our unmanned platforms at the system and component levels. You will partner closely with EE, ME, and Autonomy teams to translate mission needs into robust, reliable hardware. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment where reliability and test rigor determine program success. You will be hands-on in developing test methods and equipment to uncover failures before they happen in the field. You will partner closely with EE, ME, and Autonomy teams to translate mission needs into robust, reliable hardware. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment where reliability and test rigor determine program success. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Architect and implement rigorous validation strategies, utilizing Python scripts for automation while leveraging CAD and shop tools to engineer bespoke test fixtures and hardware rigs. Oversee experimental execution across internal facilities and external laboratories, maintaining technical mastery over vibration tables, environmental chambers, DAQ systems, and ingress protection testing. Translate high-level vehicle reliability requirements into granula
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About the Team DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We are seeking a highly motivated Senior/Staff Test Engineer to join our team. This individual will play a key role in the development and validation of our unmanned platforms at the system and component levels. The ideal candidate has a strong background in test development, test execution, and root cause analysis with a proven track record of collaboratively managing risk throughout a fast paced development process. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Run and monitor tests within our facility as well as at outside test labs. Collaborate with a tight knit team to identify and understand test failures. Be hands-on in developing test methods and equipment to uncover failures before they happen in the field. Find clarity through root cause analysis of lab and field failures and suggest design changes to prevent them. Use your creativity to create novel and scaled tests for autonomous systems. We’re excited about you because you have… A bachelors or advanced degree in a relevant engineering discipline. Mastery of test equipment such as environmental chambers, vibration tables, water testers, DAQs, etc.. Ability to bring order to complex test and development programs via clear technical communication and documentation. Experience designing and building testers and equipment. Ability to write Python scripts to automate
$170K – $240K/yr
Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability About the Role We are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who have the chops to build and deliver world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible. What You Will Be Doing Build observability tools and platforms, including: metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboarding, alerting, application performance management Build with modern tools and languages like Go, Open Telemetry and Kubernetes Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies. We expect successful candidates to be coding a majority of their time Qualifications We Need Strong Computer Science fundamentals 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software, especially software other engineers use You apply a product mindset to infrastructure systems and feel accomplished enabling others Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building systems for data analytics Distributed systems monitoring and profiling skills Knowledge of cloud application security models Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Startup experience Additional Job details Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $170k - $240k annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize e
About the Team The Spark Platform team owns and operates DoorDash's Apache Spark ecosystem — the execution runtime, remote shuffle service, cluster scheduler, and reliability tooling that powers the company's data, analytics, and ML workloads. We run Spark across the company at significant scale and continue to expand the workloads, capabilities, and consumer base we serve. Orchestrating and operating thousands of Spark cluster deployments is a complex distributed system problem which the team invests heavily in runtime optimization, systems architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, and end-user tooling. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on Spark Platform, you will set the technical direction for our in-house Spark deployment and shape the architecture that will run DoorDash's data, analytics, and ML compute for the next five years and beyond. You will own the deep, cross-cutting problems that span the runtime, the shuffle service, the scheduler, and the overall service reliability — making the architectural calls that compound across the platform's lifetime. You will partner with the Engineering Manager on technical roadmap, hiring, and team shape, and act as the senior technical voice in cross-team partnerships with Data Engineering, ML Platform, and product engineering teams that depend on the platform. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or New York City for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Spark Platform team. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Set the multi-year technical direction for an in-house Spark-on-Kubernetes platform — runtime, shuffle, scheduler, reliability — and make the architectural calls that compound for years. Own the deepest distributed-systems problems on the team: shuffle architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, runtime performance, and the failure modes that only show up at scale. Partner with the Engineering Manager on technical roadmap, hiring, inte
From $180K/yr
Scale GP (Scale Generative AI Platform) is an enterprise-grade Generative AI platform providing APIs for knowledge retrieval, inference, evaluation, and more. We are seeking a strong Senior Full-Stack Engineer to help us build, scale, and refine our rapidly growing product. The ideal candidate is deeply grounded in software engineering best practices and experienced in developing and scaling modern web applications end-to-end. You will work across the stack—from React/TypeScript frontends to Python-based backends—while integrating with LLMs and machine learning systems. You will solve complex challenges in scalability, reliability, and product experience while owning significant product areas in a fast-paced environment. What You’ll Do Own major full-stack product areas , driving features from design through production deployment. Build modern frontend experiences using React and TypeScript, ensuring performance, usability, and responsiveness. Develop reliable backend services in Python, working with distributed systems, data pipelines, and ML/LLM components. Integrate with LLMs, vector databases, and AI infrastructure to power intelligent product experiences. Deliver experiments and new features quickly , maintaining high quality and tight feedback loops with customers. Collaborate across product, ML, and infrastructure teams to shape the direction of Scale GP. Adapt quickly —learning new technologies, frameworks, and tools as needed across the stack. Ideal Experience 5+ years of full-time engineering experience , post-graduation. Strong experience developing full-stack applications using React, TypeScript, and Python . Experience scaling or shipping products at high-growth startups . Familiarity with LLMs, vector databases, embeddings, or other modern AI tooling (tinkering or production experience welcome). Proficiency with SQL and modern API development. Experience with Kubernetes , containerization, and microservice architectures. Experience working with at leas
#TeamNextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com . Meet Your Future Neighbors As a Software Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll join a focused team of developers, product managers, and designers who are passionate about using technology to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbor they can rely on. We are a small, high performing team of engineers that wear multiple hats and prioritize impact for our customers. We care about moving fast and delivering impact, without compromising on quality and reliability as guided by our Engineering Principles . You will have the opportunity to learn from your co-workers and teach them. As a team, we will make each other better and build great software. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You’ll Make We believe in empowering our teams to own all aspects of bringing Nextdoor to life. As such, you’ll get the opportunity to make key contributions across our engineering stack - thi
$162K – $225K/yr
Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role As a Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Services, you will create scalable, reliable backend systems that support HP IQ's mission to transform the way people work. We value how we work as much as what we deliver. Our journey of continuous learning and evolution requires a flexible and resilient services platform that fosters innovation, experimentation, and adaptation. To enable this, we focus on designs and tools rooted in strong engineering principles like abstraction, composition, virtualization, automation, and iterative development cycles. What You Might Do Design, develop, and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot. Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code following established best practices. Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver end-to-end features. Integrate with databases and external services, ensuring performance, security, and reliability. Participate in code reviews, debugging, and performance optimization efforts. Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and support application deployment in cloud and
$140K – $225K/yr
Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role As the Senior Software Engineer, Tooling and Development Infrastructure, you will play a critical role in shaping the developer productivity tools and automated testing strategy. You’ll collaborate closely with design, development, and quality teams to plan, design, and implement robust automated tools and services that ensure the quality and reliability of our AI software stack. You will be highly hands-on in your work and collaborate closely with stakeholders. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence the development of cutting-edge automation frameworks, foster a culture of quality, and contribute to the long-term success of the organization. What You Might Do Develop and implement automation frameworks and testing strategies that cover the entire software stack, from backend systems to user-facing features. Identify, evaluate, and integrate new tools that streamline development. This includes everything from code quality tools and to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions. Lead continuous improvement efforts for our build, release, and test systems, ensuring a robust
From $264.8K/yr
Scale AI is the data foundation for AI, helping organizations build and deploy reliable production AI applications. We partner with leading enterprises and government organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives through our data annotation platform, generative AI solutions, and enterprise AI capabilities. About the General Agents Team The General Agents team, part of Scale’s Enterprise organization, builds robust general agents for customer use cases and applications. The team sits at the intersection of frontier agent development and real-world deployment, translating state-of-the-art reasoning and agentic capabilities into reliable, production-grade systems that drive real economic value. Our agents are scalable systems built around recurring enterprise problem domains, with a strong emphasis on generalization, extensibility, and deployment across many customers. About the Role As a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer (MLE) on the General Agents team, you’ll play a critical role in designing, building, and deploying production-ready AI agents that solve high-impact enterprise problems. You will work across the full agent lifecycle—from model and system design to evaluation, deployment, and iteration—bridging cutting-edge agentic techniques with the constraints and requirements of real customer environments. You will: Design and implement end-to-end agent systems that combine LLM reasoning, tool use, memory, and control logic to solve recurring enterprise use cases. Build scalable, reliable agent architectures that can be deployed across many customers with varying data, tools, and constraints. Develop evaluation frameworks, datasets, environments, and metrics to measure agent performance, reliability, and business impact in production settings. Collaborate closely with product managers, customers, data annotators, and other engineering teams to translate enterprise requirements into robust agent designs. Productionize frontier agent techniques (e.g.,
About the Team Data is at the foundation of DoorDash success. The Data Engineering team builds database solutions for various use cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and financial reporting. By implementing pipelines, data structures, and data warehouse architectures; this team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to be a technical powerhouse to help us scale our data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs. This is a hybrid position and you must be located in Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or Seattle. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Work with business partners and stakeholders to understand data requirements Work with engineering, product teams and 3rd parties to collect required data Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse Develop and implement data quality checks, conduct QA and implement monitoring routines Improve the reliability and scalability of our ETL processes Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team We're excited about you because... 5+ years of professional experience 3+ years experience working in data engineering, business intelligence, or a similar role Proficiency in programming languages such as Python/Java 3+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and workflow management tools like Airflow, Flink, Oozie and Azkaban using AWS/GCP Expert in Database fundamentals, SQL and distributed computing 3+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Druid, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kafka/Flink. Experience working with Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL and/or other DBMS platforms Excellent communication skills and experience working with technical and non-tec
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Lyft Business Product Platform team builds the systems and experiences that power Lyft's B2B products — enabling companies, organizations, and their employees to seamlessly access Lyft's transportation network. We sit at the intersection of product and platform, owning both the customer-facing features and the underlying infrastructure that makes them reliable at scale. Our work directly impacts how businesses integrate with Lyft, how admins manage their programs, and how millions of riders get where they need to go. Responsibilities: Drive architecture and technical design for systems that are highly available, scalable, and built to last — not just for today's requirements but for where the product is heading Own features end-to-end: from shaping the technical spec and design through to production rollout and operational health Think critically about how AI capabilities can be incorporated into Lyft Business products to improve the experience for business admins and riders — and bring that perspective into roadmap and architecture conversations Make well-reasoned trade-off decisions and communicate them clearly to peers, leads, and cross-functional partners Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and hold a high bar for the same in code reviews Partner across engineering, product, and design to align on direction and get buy-in on technical approaches Proactively engage in incident response, contributing both to resolution and to long-term reliability improvements Grow the team's technical culture through design reviews, tech talks, and mentorship Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and shipping production systems at scale Strong system design instincts — you can reason through distributed systems trade-offs, identify failure modes, and
$140K – $225K/yr
Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role HP IQ’s Connectivity team is seeking a Software Engineer with deep expertise in device software development. The ideal candidate will bring strong knowledge of connectivity stack and hands-on experience developing, integrating, and optimizing device software to deliver industry-leading user experiences. You will work at the intersection of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and emerging device-to-device transport technologies, tackling complex challenges in performance, reliability, and low-latency communication. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge innovations that are redefining how people and devices seamlessly connect across the modern enterprise. What You Might Do Design, develop, and integrate connectivity software features across Android, Windows, and embedded platforms, including SDKs, frameworks, and system services. Implement, optimize, and tune wireless networking protocols and sensing algorithms with a focus on enterprise-scale architectures and deployments. Design, implement, and troubleshoot peer-to-peer technologies to deliver secure, reliable, and low-latency
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 looking for an experienced technical operator to lead live testing, deployment, and operational validation of cutting-edge autonomous technologies. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and operations, helping ensure new capabilities are safely deployed, thoroughly evaluated, and translated into actionable engineering feedback. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and oversee live testing across transport, deployment, and safety validation. Partner closely with hardware, software, and business operations teams to validate new product capabilities while providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members. Conduct and document complex tests for autonomous technologies, evaluating robot behavior, identifying issues, and validating new features and requirements. Provide actionable technical feedback to engineering teams based on test outcomes. Exercise technical judgment during live testing by evaluating robot behavior, assessing operational risk, distinguishing expected behavior from product defects, and determining when engineering escalation or additional validation is required. Develop and implement testing processes, protocols, and checklists that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of new products. Utilize internal tools to analyze logs, investigate issues, document findings, and track issues through resolution. Mentor junior team members in structured debugging and documentation practices. Conduct detailed analyses and generate comprehensive reports that identify trends, summarize findings, and provide strategic recommendations to engineering and operations partners. We’re excited about you because… 2+ years of exper
From $252K/yr
The Public Sector software engineers (SWEs) create the core product building blocks forward-deployed teams use to develop agentic capabilities that function across multiple domains. SWEs responsibilities include building the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets to support real-time decision-making in contested environments. We develop novel agentic enabling capabilities that includes: Create multi-layered guardrails around agents Optimize data retrieval for agents Orchestrate fleets of asynchronous agents Automatically alerts users to deviations in data Illustrating how an agent reached a decision As a Staff Software Engineer, you will orchestrate the implementation of vertical features and horizontal capabilities to include mentoring other engineers on defining requirements with stakeholders and communication tradeoffs of technical implementations on feature and capabilities until they are accepted by the stakeholders. You will: Orchestrate feature implementation across the Federal engineering team to ensure architectural consistency. Define technical strategy for agentic guardrails, explainability, and fleet orchestration. Ensure system reliability and performance across multiple security classifications and network types. Mentor engineers in the process of defining requirements with stakeholders and gathering acceptance. Communicate high-level technical trade-offs and implementation strategies to senior government stakeholders and Scale C-Suite members. Influence the long-term product strategy and technical roadmap for the Federal business unit. Consult on the architecture of AI-powered solutions for large-scale federal contracts. Ideally you will have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in front-end, back-end development and infrastructure, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in
About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent innovation hub within DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. Our mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. If you have a passion for applying AI and robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! Please Note: This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires being in-person 5 days a week. About the Role We are seeking a Senior RF Engineer to join our multidisciplinary team developing mission-critical RF/electrical systems for unmanned platforms.This role offers a rare opportunity to gain deep insight into RF design and validation, contributing across the full product lifecycle, from early concept and prototyping through production. In this role, you will apply deep expertise in electromagnetic theory and wireless system design to ensure autonomous platforms operate with exceptional reliability and precision. You will design, optimize and validate RF / mixed-signal PCBAs with a strong focus on interference mitigation, troubleshoot system-level desense, and leverage a thorough understanding of wireless technologies including LTE, 5G NR, Wi-Fi, GPS, and UWB. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead the development of innovative solutions that span across RF, Mixed signal and mechanical domain. Design RF hardware as well as wireless testbeds to support system validation, and lead the execution and documentation of system-level design and verification Provide expertise, mentorship to partner teams regarding EMI mitigation strategies, and cross-functional debug processes Characterize EMI caused by internal & external aggressors by tracing root causes using EMC probes
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