Electrical Engineer - DoorDash Air

In this role, you will own critical subsystems of the aircrafts and ground systems for DoorDash Air, designing mechatronics systems from a blank sheet. You will collaborate closely with firmware, systems, mechanical engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and reliability teams to bring drone delivery to reality. Your designs will operate complex mechanisms in the field and in the air within a year.

Responsibilities

• Design mechatronics systems from a blank sheet
• Impact how our customers and merchants interact with our systems
• You’ll own the electrical design while collaborating closely with firmware, systems and mechanical engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and reliability teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• You have 5+ years of experience designing electronics circuit in highly cross-functional work environments
• You feel at home in the lab, building prototypes to identify the best sensors and actuators for an application, and how to control them
• You can debug a complex system and identify issues caused by signal integrity, electromagnetic interference, hardware design errors or firmware bugs.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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).
• $139,400—$205,000 USD