Senior Software Engineer, Motion Planning

Responsibilities

• Design and ship real-time behavior and motion planning features for complex urban/suburb driving scenarios
• Lead root-cause analysis and systematically eliminate planner-related disengagements and long-tail failures
• Build scalable evaluation, simulation, and validation frameworks to ensure safe rollout to new geo-fenced regions
• Collaborate cross-functionally with perception, prediction, controls, and platform teams
• Contribute to architecture decisions that improve planner robustness, generalization, and computational efficiency

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, or a related technical field
• Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)
• Strong C++ software engineering experience building production-quality systems
• Experience developing or deploying motion planning, robotics, or real-time decision-making systems
• Experience with data-driven evaluation, simulation, and performance metrics

About the Company

DoorDash Labs serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics.