Senior/Staff Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer

DoorDash, Inc

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On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$168,000–$247,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago

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About DoorDash, Inc

DoorDash, Inc. is an American company operating online food ordering and food delivery. It trades under the symbol DASH. With a 56% market share, DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States.

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TL;DR · Senior/Staff Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer

Join the DD Labs team as a Senior/Staff Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer, where you will design and deploy deep reinforcement learning policies for real-time autonomous driving decisions. You will manage the entire lifecycle of RL projects, from defining complex tasks with well-shaped rewards to large-scale distributed training and on-vehicle deployment using JAX. Responsibilities include enhancing GPU-accelerated simulation environments, building robust training infrastructure, and automating optimization processes to minimize human intervention. Ideal candidates have a strong background in reinforcement learning and deep learning, proficiency in JAX or similar frameworks, and hands-on experience with real-time decision-making systems. Experience in autonomous driving and robotics is highly valued, as well as contributions to top-tier AI conferences.

What you'll do

  • Formulate complex driving tasks as RL problems with well-shaped reward functions.
  • Design and train model-based deep RL agents using GPU-accelerated simulation at scale.
  • Build and maintain distributed training infrastructure in JAX across large compute clusters.
  • Develop agentic optimization systems for automatic improvement of RL policies.
  • Ensure seamless integration of learned components with the autonomy stack.

What we're looking for

  • BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, or related field with strong reinforcement learning and deep learning foundation.
  • Hands-on experience training RL agents at scale in robotics, autonomous driving, or real-time decision-making domains.
  • Proficiency in JAX or similar functional ML framework; comfort with JIT compilation, vectorized environments, GPU-accelerated simulation.
  • Deep understanding of core RL concepts including policy gradients, value functions, exploration-exploitation strategies.
  • Ability to formulate complex tasks as RL problems and design well-shaped reward functions for expressive state/action representations.

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