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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Fulfillment Planning
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About the Team The Fulfillment Planning team builds the intelligence that powers DoorDash’s logistics network. We optimize how deliveries are planned and executed across the full delivery lifecycle, improving customer experience, merchant outcomes, Dasher efficiency, and DoorDash profitability. Our mission is to improve fulfillment quality while reducing fulfillment cost. We do this by applying machine learning, optimization, and systems engineering to the core decisions behind assignment, routing, batching, timing, and fulfillment estimation. The team works on some of DoorDash’s most important logistics systems, including: The core assignment engine that matches deliveries with Dashers in real time. Real-time ETA and fulfillment estimation systems for consumers, Dashers, and merchants across diverse geographies and all business lines. Assignment and planning algorithms for specialized
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Define and lead DoorDash’s cutting-edge AI vision for logistics: an LLM-inspired foundation model for intelligence across logistics Mentor other engineers and raise the technical bar for logistics ML across the organization; Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation
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