Electrical Engineer - DoorDash Air at Doordashusa — San Fransisco, CA

## About the Team

The DoorDash Air team is bringing drone delivery to reality. To make this happen, we’re building a strong electrical team to design high reliability, high power density converters, and fault-tolerant controls electronics. Come join us to build a new class of aircrafts and deploy at scale.

DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike.  We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact.  We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries.  As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries.  We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better.

## About the Role

In this role, you will own critical subsystems of the aircrafts and ground systems. Within a year, your designs will be operating complex mechanisms in the field and in the air. You will report into our Lead Electrical Engineer (not manager’s name)] DoorDash Air team in our DoorDash Labs organization.

• 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

## We’re excited about you because...

• 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.

Compensation

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).

$139,400—$205,000 USD

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