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DoorDash

Runs apps for local food and grocery delivery

Autonomy Simulation Engineer

Robotics & Autonomous SystemsPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeOakland, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong production experience with C++ and Python.
  • Ability to translate real-world behavior and physical systems into practical software models.
  • Experience building closed-loop or interactive simulation software, with depth in areas such as robot dynamics, physics, road-user behavior, synthetic scenario generation, or probabilistic modeling.
  • Experience using real-world data and controlled, repeatable experiments to test, calibrate, or validate software models.
  • Experience debugging complex systems and delivering reliable production software using Linux, Git, automated testing, and continuous integration.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain the simulation engine and supporting software.
  • Build and improve simulation models of robot behavior, other participants, and their interactions.
  • Calibrate and validate simulation models against real-world behavior using controlled, repeatable experiments.
  • Develop parameterized environments and synthetic scenarios to test conditions and interactions that are difficult to capture in the field.
  • Investigate differences between simulated and real-world behavior, identify contributing model assumptions and parameters, and implement improvements.
  • Improve simulator reproducibility, reliability, usability, and debuggability.
  • Own projects from design through validation and report to the Simulation Lead.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience applying machine learning to simulation modeling and validating learned models against real-world data.

About the Company

DoorDash

Runs apps for local food and grocery delivery

DoorDash runs apps that let people order restaurant meals, groceries, and other goods from local businesses, which independent couriers called Dashers bring to their doors. In 2019 it overtook Grubhub to become the largest food delivery service in the United States, and it later expanded abroad by buying Finland's Wolt and Britain's Deliveroo. Merchants pay DoorDash a fee on each order and can buy ads in its apps, while customers pay delivery and service fees or join DashPass, a subscription that cuts those fees. Businesses can also hire Dashers through its Drive service to carry orders placed on their own websites. Four Stanford students founded DoorDash in 2013, and it is based in San Francisco, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2013

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