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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Role Overview We are seeking a Staff Simulation Engineer to build an end-to-end aerial autonomy simulation stack at DoorDash Labs. This is a highly technical, hands-on leadership role focused on defining and implementing the simulation architecture that underpins autonomy development, validation, CI/CD testing, and pilot training. You will operate as the technical authority for simulation: owning core architecture decisions, developing key components yourself, and setting engineering standards. You will build and mentor a small, high-caliber simulation team while remaining deeply involved in implementation and system design. This role is ideal for someone who has built simulation systems from first principles, understands simulator internals deeply, and is excited to create a world-class platform from scratch. Key Responsibilities Architect and implement an end-to-end simulation stack for aerial autonomy at DoorDash Labs.. Develop high-fidelity simulation capabilities, including: Flight dynamics modeling Contact modeling and constraint handling Sensor and perception simulation Autonomy software-in-the-loop (SITL) integration Design and implement scalable simulation infrastructure to support: Regression testing in CI/CD pipelines Continuous validation of flight autonomy and autopilot software stack Mission-level testing and scenario generation Build cloud-deployed simulation systems to enable large-scale parallel testing and pilot training. Partner closely with autonomy, controls, and aircraft teams to ensure simulation fidelity and validation alignment. Establish technical direction, architecture standards, and performance benchmarks for simulation. Mentor and grow a small team of simulation engineers while remaining deeply hands-on. Required Qualifications Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field. 10+ years of experience in robotics or physics-based simulation. Deep expe
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 are hiring a Firmware Validation & Integration Engineer for our autonomy software team. This is a critical role to build robust and scalable validation for our firmware and systems to ensure reliability at every level. In this role, you will work with our electrical, firmware, and autonomy engineers to build the infrastructure and test suites required to validate the system. This includes designing and implementing our Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation environments and automation frameworks from the ground up. You will report to the Autonomy Platform Lead on our Autonomy Platform Team at DoorDash Labs. We expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a small and focused team. Design and build Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems to simulate vehicle dynamics and sensor data for comprehensive firmware and system-level validation. Develop automated test infrastructure and software tools to exercise multiple embedded platforms throughout our robot system. Interface many layers of our control system including vehicle controls, power management, and motion control to ensure seamless system integration. Implement low-level test sequences and validation algorithms to safely stress-test vehicle components such as batteries, drive-train, and thermal management devices. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify edge cases and hardware-software corner cases that impact vehicle safety and performance. We’re excited about you because… BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field. 5+ years of experience in validati
$170K – $240K/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 is seeking a Senior Power Systems Engineer to drive end to end system architecture, modeling, and optimization for wearable platforms. The candidate will build power models, define system use cases and operating modes, partner with product and engineering teams to meet aggressive power targets, and define manufacturing tests and field telemetry for NPI. The ideal candidate brings strong systems thinking, hands-on experience with low power architectures, and the ability to build models and telemetry to drive tradeoffs from SOC level to board level to maximize user runtime. What You Might Do: Power architecture responsibility for a wearable device covering SoC states, sensor, audio, and memory architecture tradeoffs at board level. Battery, PCM, and charging profile definition and validation Design power experiments, test plans, and measurement & telemetry mechanisms across firmware and hardware to optimize power and performance. Build and maintain system-level power models to model expected power consumption for user profiles. Map power models by subsystem, correlating
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
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 are hiring a Software Integration Engineer for our Platform Integration team. This is a critical role with impact across the robot lifecycle, from manufacturing to daily operation. The Platform Integration team owns making sure the robot works as one cohesive system. The focus is on the interfaces between subsystems; this role in particular is focused on the software side handling interaction between: OS & software stack; firmware; networking; timing; and calibration. In this role, you will work cross functionally with our electrical, hardware, firmware, and autonomy engineers to support new functionality both in both hardware and software. This includes creating provisioning tools, functional tests, and supporting integration into the autonomy software stack. You will report to the Autonomy Platform Lead on our Autonomy Platform Team at DoorDash Labs. We expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a small and focused team. Lead system-level debug when an issue crosses subsystem boundaries or no single team can isolate it. Support early integration of new sensor and software component designs by identifying interface requirements, risks, dependencies and required checks. Design and maintain integration tests, test setups, and procedures to ensure subsystems, once combined, satisfy requirements and design intent. Build and maintain the mission-readiness checks used before manufacturing signoff, validation, field testing, or mission use for different robot platforms. Create the tools, checks, and debug guidance that Manufacturing Integration, Validation,
$180K – $270K/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 Wireless Technology Team works cross-functionally with Electrical Engineering, Software, Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, Industrial Design, Program Management, and Operations to develop next-generation wearable and AI-connected products. As a Lead RF Systems & Desense Engineer, you will own the RF system architecture from concept through mass production. You will lead RF integration across Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UWB, NFC and emerging wireless technologies while driving RF desense, coexistence, and wireless performance for highly integrated products. What You Might Do Lead RF system architecture and integration for wearable and mobile platforms. Own RF desense investigations and mitigation across the product lifecycle. Define RF specifications, link budgets, validation plans and performance targets. Lead coexistence strategy for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UWB, NFC and other radios. Partner with antenna, EE, FW, ME and silicon vendors to optimize total wireless performance. Perform CST and ADS simula
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 Je
About the Team DoorDash for Business is how companies feed their people. We build the products that let a company run a recurring team lunch, give every employee a meal budget, cater an event or meeting and manage all of it through a single corporate account - across every brand and every market DoorDash operates in. About the Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team in DoorDash for Business. Our domain runs from the moment an order is placed to everything a company needs to administer it: high-complexity ordering for catering, recurring team meals, and group orders; the admin portal, identity, and member management that companies run their account on; budgets and policy enforcement; and the expense and travel integrations that connect us to our customers' finance systems. You'll own a pod of 8-10 engineers with a critical charter inside that domain, real revenue attached to it, and close partnership with Product, Design, and Sales Strategy & Operations. You must be located in the Seattle, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Own a business-critical charter end to end - set technical direction, define the roadmap with your PM and Business counterparts, and be accountable for what ships and how well it runs. Build and grow a team - Hire, level up, and retain engineers; set the bar for what good looks like on your pod; give people work that stretches them. Work on a genuinely global product - Your charter serves the US alongside EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, with partner pods in India, Helsinki, and Brazil. You'll help decide what's built once globally versus what needs regional variation and build the partnerships across time zones to make that stick Take on real architectural weight - Consolidating onto one global stack means untangling parallel implementations, drawing clean service-ownership lines, and making migration calls with production tr
From $165.6K/yr
Overview Scale’s Finance Systems and Automation team is looking for a builder-oriented team member to help design and develop integrations, automations, and AI agents that streamline workflows across Finance, Accounting, People, and Recruiting. In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, People Operations, and Recruiting to understand their workflows and build integrations, automations, and agentic workflows that reduce manual effort and accelerate execution across these teams. You will leverage our internal data infrastructure, system integration tooling, and emerging AI platforms to architect scalable solutions — from traditional system integrations to intelligent agent-driven workflows — that serve as the foundation for long-term operational efficiency. We’re looking for someone who thrives on connecting systems, automating repetitive processes, and pushing toward more autonomous, AI-assisted operations. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, designing solutions that scale, and rigorously validating outcomes end to end. What You’ll Do Design and build agent-driven workflows and automation systems across People Operations, Recruiting, Finance, and Accounting Identify opportunities to replace manual or rules-based processes with agentic workflows Partner with stakeholders to translate business processes into scalable, automated solutions Lead the implementation of end-to-end workflows, from requirements through deployment and validation Automate candidate-to-employee transitions (e.g., Greenhouse → HRIS → provisioning systems) Build workflows to manage employee lifecycle events such as onboarding, transfers, and offboarding Automate approval flows and data synchronization across People, Finance, and Recruiting systems Support accounting and finance workflows through scalable integrations and automation Design and implement the underlying integrations and data flows that enable reliable automation and agent behavior Est
$162K – $288K/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 System Software team enables on-device experiences to take full advantage of our hardware capabilities. We collaborate with internal and external partners in a high-leverage environment that enables us to spend a majority of our time developing solutions that are unique to our hardware, sensors, algorithms, and interaction models. If you enjoy solving complex, interdisciplinary problems with a world-class team, we'd love to hear from you! What You Might Do Learn what it's like to be a part of a world-class embedded software team building a first-of-its-kind product in a startup environment Responsible for system design and architecture Develop low-level driver and framework software in C and C++ Develop device-focused infrastructure software in Python Debug issues at the interface between hardware and software Optimize software for better performance and lower power consumption Collaborate in the software engineering process with documentation, testing, and code review Essential Qualifications 8+ years of experience in system software engineering and embedded platf
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.,
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
From $216K/yr
At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. Scale Frontier Data is the organization behind the training and evaluation data that frontier labs depend on. We build the systems, tooling, and expert workflows that turn hard human expertise into signals that models can learn from, across reasoning, coding, agentic tool use, and domain expertise. About our Customer Platform team: Our Customer Platform Team plays a pivotal role in integrating our platform with external systems and ensuring seamless, reliable connectivity for both internal users and customers. As the leader of this team, you’ll drive the strategy, architecture, and development of our connectivity solutions, focusing on API integration, distributed systems, and a robust data platform. Your role will be crucial in maintaining and enhancing our platform’s ability to meet the needs of both our internal and external stakeholders. Responsibilities: Own large areas within our product Comfortable working cross functionally, whether that be internal or external customers Build features end-to-end: front-end, back-end, system design, debugging and testing Deliver experiments at a high velocity and level of quality to engage our customers Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team Inspire and mentor less experienced engineers Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new product features and experiences. Requirements: At least 7-10 years of relevant experience is preferred Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale Desire to work in a very fast-paced environment Abil
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. With a billion rides per year and counting, Lyft is solving hard problems in a rapidly growing domain with a lot of data and creative solutions in Rider, Marketplace, Growth, and beyond. While traditional approaches to optimization and problem decomposition are sufficient to disrupt transportation, building a next-generation platform for low-cost, ultra-immersive transportation to improve people's lives warrants modern ML utilizing peta-byte scale data. Our highly motivated Machine Learning Engineers work on these challenging problems and define solutions to directly impact various aspects of our core business. If you are a critical thinker with experience in machine learning workflows and LLMs, passionate about solving business problems using data and working in a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment, we are searching for you. We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Rider Applied AI team and lead the design, development, and deployment of state-of-the-art machine learning and artificial intelligence systems. This role requires a strategic thinker who can balance high-level system architecture with hands-on technical implementation. You will collaborate across teams to shape the future of ride-sharing by leveraging AI, Machine learning and Data science. Responsibilities: Model Development & Research: Design, build, and deploy machine learning models for real-time applications, including translating state-of-the-art research into production-ready solutions. System Design: Architect scalable, reliable ML pipelines that integrate seamlessly with existing backend systems. Innovation & Applied Research: Stay ahead of the curve by exploring emerging algorithms, technologies (such as LLMs and LLM-based applications), and frameworks — critically eva
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