About the Team
Join us in building the world's most reliable on-demand logistics engine for delivery! We are bringing on a talented Machine Learning Engineer to help us develop and improve the ETA models that power DoorDash's three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. As a fundamental area of investment for DoorDash, ETA has among the coolest problems to solve at scale and creates a major impact on the company and its businesses.
About the Role
As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will have the opportunity to leverage our robust data and machine learning infrastructure to develop inference and optimization ETA models that impact millions of users across our three audiences and tackle our most challenging business problems. You will work with other data scientists, engineers, and product managers to develop and iterate on models to help us grow our business and provide better service quality for our customers.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Build Deep Learning models for next-generation ETA that provide the most accurate, scalable and robust time predictions and enhance the consumer, merchant, and dasher experience.
- Own the modeling life cycle end-to-end, including feature creation, model development and testing, experimentation, monitoring and explainability, and model maintenance.
- Being exposed to new opportunities where ETA can be used as a lever that benefits new business, new markets, and new regions.
- You can find out more on our ML blog post here.
We're excited about you because…
- High-energy and confident — you keep the mission in mind, take ideas and help them grow using data and rigorous testing, show evidence of progress and then double down
- You're an owner — driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work
- Humble — you're willing to jump in and you're open to feedback
- Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity — things change quickly in our fast-paced startup and you'll need to be able to keep up!
- Growth-minded — you're eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
- Desire for impact — ready to take on a lot of responsibility and work collaboratively with your team
Experience
- 1+ years of industry experience post PhD or 3+ years of industry experience post graduate degree of developing advanced machine learning models with business impact.
- Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software
- M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science, Statistics, or other related quantitative fields.
- Strong background in Deep Learning and OSS ML technologies such as Spark, PyTorch, Airflow with hands-on experience in production.
- Demonstrated expertise with programming languages e.g. python and machine learning libraries e.g., Spark MLLib, PyTorch, etc.
- Deep understanding of complex systems such as Marketplaces, and domain knowledge in two or more of the following: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Operations Research / Optimization, and LLM.
- Experience of shipping production-grade ML models and optimization systems, and designing sophisticated experimentation techniques.
- You are located or are planning to relocate to San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, or Seattle, WA.
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About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees' happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That's why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
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