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About The Team DoorDash for Business is building the premier corporate dining and benefits platform—helping companies of all sizes feed their teams through industry-leading products and meal programs. Our mission is to become the go-to solution for executives, administrators, and employees who need seamless, high-quality food programs at work. We move fast, operate with an ownership mindset, and are growing new product lines to better serve our corporate customers. Merchant success is core to that mission. When merchants have a clear, fast, and high-quality path from interest to live, our products work better for everyone—customers, Dashers, and the merchants themselves. About The Role As Associate Manager, Merchant Onboarding and Experience on the DoorDash for Business team, you will own how merchants get onto our programs and how they feel while they do it. You will be the lead for onboarding process design, execution quality, and merchant experience—turning a complex, multi-step journey into something that is faster, clearer, and consistently excellent. Your responsibilities will range from strategic (mapping the end-to-end onboarding journey, setting the operating model, and aligning Product, Ops, Sales, and Support on what “great” looks like) to operational (diagnosing drop-off, tightening handoffs, building playbooks, and using data and automation to remove friction). You will bring a systems mindset: every broken step is a process to redesign, every merchant complaint is a signal, and every manual workaround is a candidate for a better workflow. You will report into the DoorDash for Business Merchant Experience team. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will be driving… Onboarding Process Ownership Own the end-to-end merchant onboarding journey—from first intake through go-live. Map the current-state workflow, identify bottlenecks and failure points, and redesign the process so merchants get live faster with fewer drop-offs, fewer handoffs, and c

About the Team We help Merchants access the financial products they need to grow and operate their businesses. DoorDash Capital is one of the company's fastest-growing bets, and our team owns the full growth engine from identifying unmet Merchant needs to launching products and scaling them. We obsess over how to deliver more value to Merchants through our platform and our financing partnerships, and we measure ourselves on adoption, revenue, and Merchant outcomes. About the Role You will report to the Director, S&O New Business on our DoorDash Capital team and own the growth of one of our newest bets with a key partner in the financing space. This is a 0-to-1 growth role: you'll take an early product and scale it to maturity by driving adoption, conversion, and revenue. You will have support from product, engineering, sales, and marketing. The ideal candidate is energized by finding growth levers, moving fast, running experiments, and learning from data in a high-velocity environment. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Strategize – Understand the needs of our Merchants, prioritize those needs by impact, and create solutions with cross-functional partners Build – Drive the implementation of new product features and processes for managing Merchant financial products Construct - Navigate in an ambiguous environment and bring structure to undefined opportunities. There won’t be playbooks or templates, instead you will create them. Analyze – Leverage data whenever possible to inform your hypothesis and convince cross functional partners. Influence – Work cross-functionally with our Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Business Development teams to align on a path forward and bring these products to market We’re excited about you because… You have 4+ years of experience in strategy & operations / product management / investment banking / management consulting / mergers & acquisitions or relate

About the Team Our mission is to provide a world-class development experience that makes DoorDash's web engineers among the most productive in the industry. We achieve this by creating the tools that enable all teams at the company to ship features quickly and reliably. Because their success is our success, we are deeply invested in building a strong, collaborative web community that champions best practices and welcomes participation. About the Role As a Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you will build the foundational pieces for all DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo Web applications. These include monorepos, build & CI systems and agent-first development tooling. You will work closely with engineers and other internal stakeholders to deliver large and impactful initiatives. Additionally, you will be a culture carrier for our Web engineers through mentorship, education, and engagement of your peers. You will report into the Engineering Manager of our Web Developer Experience team in our Developer Platform organization. You must be located in either San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA, or New York, NY. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Shape the future of Web Development. You will have a direct and meaningful impact on the daily workflows of every web engineer at the company, enhancing their productivity and overall developer experience. Build from the ground up. You will architect and implement foundational libraries, cutting-edge build systems, and innovative development tools that serve as the bedrock for all of our web applications. Solve complex, high-impact challenges. You will tackle some of the most significant technical hurdles in web engineering, and the solutions you deliver will be leveraged by hundreds of employees across numerous product teams. Act as a force multiplier. Your work will directly empower product teams to build, test, and release new features to our customers fa

About the Team We’re looking for a Senior University Recruiter to help us identify and attract top-tier early career talent to join our Engineering and Design teams. For the first time, our global organizations of DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo will be joining forces for one unified, global internship program and you would be on the forefront of building what this strategy looks like for a global team. From building relationships with universities to advising on the interview processes, being a part of headcount conversations to planning events and running performance review cycles, you will help build the foundations of this program making it something that can scale and grow each year. About the Role Your impact will go beyond filling roles; you’ll shape how we approach hiring from how we define what ‘great’ looks like in an engineer. You’ll play a key role in how we build diverse talent pipelines and create a seamless experience for every candidate and intern throughout the program. You’ll be the bridge between us and top university talent, helping DoorDash continue to invest in, build, and grow the next generation. This role sits within our Engineering Recruiting team and reports into the Recruiting Manager for Global University Recruiting. It will be based in San Francisco, CA. You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will… Manage full-cycle recruitment for all technical intern and new grad hiring roles across the US Identify, engage, and maintain relationships with high-potential candidates, partnership organizations, and universities Build diverse talent pipelines, and run smooth, efficient processes from first conversation to final offer Embed DE&I principles into every stage of the process from diversifying sourcing channels to reducing bias in assessment and ensuring diversity in interview panels. Build and streamline interview processes and workflows ensuring we’re iterating and adjusting as we scale and grow Train interviewers and coach

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 Software Engineer on Spark Platform, you will execute across the surfaces of our in-house Spark deployment that serves the entire company. The work spans Spark runtime upgrades and performance, multi-tenant scheduling and executor bin-packing on Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle automation, and the observability and incident automation that keep the platform sustainable. You will move between layers as the work demands — picking up the next high-leverage problem regardless of where it sits — and partner closely with the rest of the team and with platform consumers across the company. 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… Build and operate an in-house Spark platform that runs at company-wide scale, spanning runtime, scheduler, reliability, and user-facing tooling. Drive multi-tenant scheduling, executor bin-packing, and cost-aware placement that let a small team serve dozens of consumer teams. Own pieces of cluster lifecycle automation — provisioning, upgrades, capacity changes, and node-failure handling — at a scale where these stop being manual events. Build the observability and incident automation that make the platform debuggable end-to-end and keep on-call sus

About the Team DoorDash’s GenAI Platform team sits within Machine Learning Platform and builds the shared infrastructure that helps DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo teams safely bring GenAI-powered products, agents, automation, and personalization to production. Our mission is to increase the velocity of business impact from GenAI. A central pillar of that work is running frontier open-weight LLMs and VLMs (such as GLM, Qwen, Kimi, and DeepSeek) ourselves — real-time GPU serving, high-throughput batch inference, and fine-tuning on autoscaling GPUs — delivering large cost and latency wins (for example, a billion embeddings produced roughly 20× cheaper and visual models served roughly 72% cheaper). We also own core platform surfaces including the LLM Gateway, Agent Gateway, evals infrastructure, guardrails, and cost attribution. About the Role You will join a small, high-leverage team building production infrastructure for Generative AI at DoorDash, leading the design and architecture of our open-weights model platform spanning inference and fine-tuning: real-time GPU serving, high-throughput batch inference, and model fine-tuning. You’ll set technical direction across model serving and inference engines, fine-tuning and training pipelines, GPU autoscaling and utilization, batch pipelines, backend services, and observability, and mentor engineers as you go. This role is ideal for a senior engineer who enjoys owning ambiguous, high-impact systems and pushing the cost/performance frontier of GPU inference and fine-tuning in a fast-moving technical area where product needs, model capabilities, vendor ecosystems, and cost/performance tradeoffs are evolving quickly. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead the design of infrastructure that helps DoorDash teams move GenAI ideas from prototype to production, increasing the velocity of business impact from AI across the company. Own and evolve our open-weights serving stack — real-time GPU endpoints, high-thr

About the Team AI Research Lab is one of DoorDash’s frontier innovation hubs, focused on building the foundation for an AI-native future across our three core audiences: consumers, merchants, and dashers. As AI capabilities accelerate, the AI Research Lab operates at the center of technical exploration and real-world execution — connecting frontier model research, internal platform investments, operator teams, and strategic external partners. Our mission is to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, production-ready systems that drive measurable business impact. We combine deep technical rigor with strong operational execution to ensure that breakthrough capabilities become durable competitive advantages for DoorDash. About the Role As an Associate Manager, Strategy & Operations on our AI Research Lab, you will play a central role in converting frontier AI advancements into shipped products and scalable infrastructure. You will operate across research, product, and operations to move from early discovery and experimentation to deployment and impact. This role sits at the intersection of customer insight, technical innovation, and business execution. You will help define and scale the Lab’s most important bets while building the foundations that enable AI applications to compound over time. You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will … Reimagining core experiences through AI, such as the merchant journey, by partnering directly with in-field merchants, sales, support, product, and engineering teams. You will help unify major initiatives into a coherent, AI-native interaction model. Own revenue-driving AI initiatives, operating as the accountable business owner for high-priority AI bets and ensuring clear linkage between technical progress and financial outcomes. Lead business planning cycles, developing go-to-market strategies for AI-powered products and capabilities, overseeing execution through structured project plans, resource allocation,

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 The Storage teams build and operate online stateful systems and abstractions that are reliable, efficient, secure and easy to use for DoorDash Engineering. The teams are responsible for understanding Product Engineering’s evolving needs and developing platform and infrastructure capabilities to serve them. The team currently supports CockroachDB, Cassandra, Kafka and Redis as well as data abstraction services to reduce the complexity of interacting with storage systems for Product Engineers. About the Role The Storage team is building and operating a high-performance, scalable, and reliable data abstraction layer that optimizes both efficiency and reliability. Our goal is to create a platform that manages itself and fades into the background—empowering engineers to focus on delivering product experiences our customers love. This role is available across two teams within Storage, each solving unique and high-impact challenges: One team is building the orchestration layer for DoorDash’s storage platform—unifying lifecycle management, operations, and self-serve APIs for databases and streaming systems, turning complex, stateful infrastructure into reliable, developer-friendly services used across the company. One team builds and operates the distributed data platform powering DoorDash's largest stateful workloads -- including Cassandra, which backs critical product surfaces across DoorDash, Wolt, and Roo. You'll design high-throughput data abstractions, smart clients, and platform services that make distributed data reliable and easy to work with at multi-petabyte, multi-million-QPS scale, with opportunities to go deep on distributed systems internals and contribute to the open-source Cassandra ecosystem. If you're passionate about distributed systems, developer experience, and building foundational infrastructure at scale, we'd love to hear from you. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or the New York Metro Area for this hybrid pos

About the Team DashMart is a local-fulfillment center owned and operated by DoorDash, offering customers household essentials and other items to their doorsteps with speed, reliability, and quality. Customers order their convenience, grocery, retail, and prepared foods in the DoorDash app, and our team members fulfill orders in a real, brick-and-mortar store for Dashers to deliver. We’re open early and close late - some sites even run 24/7! About the Role DashMart is looking for a motivated and experienced individual that excels in fast-paced, physical environments and is excited to roll up their sleeves and actively engage in day-to-day operations. In this role, you will work within a local fulfillment center supporting Site Management running great shifts, and delegating tasks. As a Shift Lead, you will have shift responsibility for fulfilling orders in a warehouse environment and maintaining inventory, and in some locations, this involves preparing food in a light-prep kitchen. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Be an Owner: Take ownership of your assigned shifts, including warehouse and kitchen processes, safety/cleanliness, quality, and training. Maintain accountability for inventory, equipment, and other company assets to ensure they are properly handled, stored, and protected from loss or theft. Delight Customers: Ensure customer orders are delivered with high quality by executing orders accurately, communicating with customers when issues arise, and making sure Dasher pickups go smoothly. Lead: Guide Operations Associates through their shift by ensuring the team works safely and productively and serving as the point of escalation for daily operations. One Team One Fight: Support operations in both the warehouse and kitchen, assist with day-to-day tasks, and lead by example. You will be expected to engage in professional and respectful interactions with team members and customers, ensuring a positive and safe

About the Team At DoorDash, design means making experiences for the people who order, the people who prepare, and the people who deliver. As a Designer at DoorDash, you want to build things that matter to real people. You're at your best when you can move from idea to shipped product quickly, bringing experiences to life that reach and influence users at massive scale. You'll care about whether the product you make solved a real problem for real people, or changed how someone experiences their day. About the Role At DoorDash, we’re redefining what it means to be a designer. We’re building a team of makers, builders, and doers. Over the past decade, “web designer” evolved into “product designer” as the scope expanded. Now, that shift is happening again — LLMs are broadening the role further, pushing design toward both strategic thinking and direct execution. As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll help lead this evolution: not only practicing build-first design, but scaling it across people, processes, and systems. In this role, you’ll join the Ads & Promos Design team — one of DoorDash’s fastest-growing businesses — owning end-to-end campaign experience design and shaping the strategic vision for our marketing tooling system. This platform powers both SMB and enterprise restaurants across DoorDash’s global markets and connects local businesses with over 40 million consumers globally. Your impact will span both team effectiveness and business growth. You’ll increase team velocity and autonomy by building reusable workflows, shared tools, and decision frameworks that enable designers to operate at a higher level with less coordination overhead. In parallel, you’ll drive measurable business outcomes by unlocking faster experimentation, shorter iteration cycles, and higher-quality execution across your team and adjacent teams. This role can be based in New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle and reports to the Design Manager for Ads & Promotions (Restaurant Experie

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 want to work on commercializing autonomy and robotics in a service used by millions of people — and on bringing the merchant partners who power that service along with us — then we want to talk to you! About the Role Come help us redefine last-mile logistics through robotics, automation, and other advanced technologies. Autonomy only works when merchants — restaurants, retailers, and other partners — can reliably interact with our robots: handing off orders, troubleshooting edge cases, and trusting the experience enough to keep using it. This role owns that side of the equation. We're looking for a Merchant Success & Growth lead to build the strategy and operational mechanisms that get merchants onboard, keep them performing, and turn their day-to-day reality into a tight feedback loop for product and engineering. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Own merchant adoption and performance KPIs for autonomy end-to-end — defining what "successful merchant interaction with a robot" means, instrumenting it, and driving improvement against it. Build the playbooks and operational mechanisms to onboard merchants to autonomy — from first conversation through training, go-live, and steady-state ops — and scale them across markets. Partner with sales, account management, and field ops to recruit and ramp the right merchant cohorts for each stage of the product, and design experiments that test new merchant-facing features and handoff models. Define merchant performance benchmarks (handoff success rate, dwell time, dasher/robot interaction quality, merchant CSAT) and run the cadence that holds partners and internal teams accountable to them. Stand up the feedback loop from the field back to product and engineering — turning merchant complaints, edge cases, and frontline observations into prioriti

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 autonomous technologies in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role As an Industrial Designer on our team, you will own the design of physical products and help elevate our brand’s experience through form, function and manufacturability. You’ll be responsible for leading concept ideation, CAD modelling and prototyping, working across mechanical, electronics and user-experience domains. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, user-research and marketing, and participate in decision-making around product direction. This role offers ownership across the design lifecycle — from early sketches through production launch. You're excited about this opportunity because... Lead end-to-end design projects: develop concept sketches, CAD/3D models, renderings and physical prototypes. Conduct research into user needs, market trends, materials, manufacturing processes (injection moulding, thermoforming, additive manufacturing) and competitive products. Translate design intent into detailed specifications: materials, geometry, finishes, ergonomics, manufacturing constraints. Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing and product to ensure feasibility, cost-effectiveness and alignment with brand and product vision. Build and iterate prototypes (3D prints, machined models, mock-ups), validate usability, aesthetics, functionality and manufacturability. Present design concepts, flows and prototypes to stakeholders, incorporate feedback and drive decisions. Contribute to design language, visual identity and brand consistency across products. Why You’ll Love This Role You’ll shape real, tangible products that users will interact with and rely on. You’ll work in a small, high-impact team where your contributions

About the Team At DoorDash, design means making experiences for the people who order, the people who prepare, and the people who deliver. As a Designer at DoorDash, you want to build things that matter to real people. You're at your best when you can move from idea to shipped product quickly, bringing experiences to life that reach and influence users at massive scale. You'll care about whether the product you make solved a real problem for real people, or changed how someone experiences their day. About the Role In this role, you’ll join the Core Dasher team within our Dasher organization, focused on one of DoorDash’s highest-priority challenges: growing and retaining Dasher supply. The team works across Growth and Financial Products to identify new ways to create value for Dashers, including exploring how Crimson, financial incentives, and financial wellness offerings can become meaningful growth levers. You’ll help lead 0→1 opportunities from strategy through launch, partnering across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, and Finance to build experiences that can scale across the U.S. and international markets. You will report to the Head of the Core Dasher team within our Dasher organization. We operate in a hybrid model, with 1–2 days per week in one of our Design Hubs in San Francisco or New York City. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Define projects with a clear point of view on what to build, writing briefs that synthesize business and customer inputs into roadmap milestones; balance customer needs, business goals, and feasibility to shape what your team builds and why Bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-team problems and turn them into actionable work that ships; drive prioritization across your team and adjacent teams, making tradeoffs between design quality, speed, and impact so the highest-leverage work moves first Shape key projects from concept through execution — staying close enough to resolve issues during iteration, gu

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