$203.5K – $299.3K/yr
About the Team DoorDash’s mission is to empower local economies. In the Applied AI srole, you will be at the absolute forefront of agentic technology, building sophisticated AI agents end-to-end to help businesses grow, create deeply personalized customer experiences, and optimize our global logistics system at an unprecedented scale. We have an applied AI lab at DoorDash, which is a team that is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This team is for builders who want to see their work directly impact millions of consumers, merchants, and dashers every day. We operate with a flat structure - everyone is expected to be hands-on and contribute directly to the mission. Initiative and consistent delivery are how people grow and lead here. About the Role You'll work directly with our cofounder with direct ownership over the direction of AI research at DoorDash. In this role, you will build sophisticated AI agents end-to-end and develop robust evaluation methods to measure and improve agent performance. You will design systems and algorithms to enhance capability, as well as collect and curate human and synthetic data to optimize the behavior of these agent systems. This is hands-on work with immediate product impact at real-world scale. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Work directly with leadership and see your research deployed at real-world scale - small team, massive reach. Move fast without bureaucracy - rapid iteration, high au