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 JetPack
• You have experience with robotics logging and visualization (RViz, Foxglove, Rerun, Plotly)
• You have strong C++ and Python skills, and you're comfortable with systems-level debugging
• You love diving into build system and compiler internals (LLVM, linker behavior, optimization passes)
• You want to own and define a critical layer of infrastructure, not just contribute to one
• You get excited about rendering and plotting robot internals, and you treat observability as a first-class problem
• You're driven by a passion for delivering outstanding customer experiences
• You have a proactive approach to development, often crafting new tools
• BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, ME, Robotics, or related field

Nice to have experience includes:

• • Experience designing fault-tolerant systems for safety-critical applications (aerospace, automotive, medical)
  • Contributions to open-source robotics tooling
  • Experience with deterministic replay or time-travel debugging for robotics
  • Familiarity with DO-178C or similar certification-aware development processes
  • Experience with Nix for reproducible robotics builds
  • You have informed opinions on process supervision (systemd vs custom vs supervisord) and can articulate the tradeoffs
  • You've debugged DDS/middleware issues under real-time constraints on embedded hardware

Compensation

The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee's work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$168,000-$247,000 USD