Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform
DoorDash, Inc
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This role pays less than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $167,250–$249,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $161k versus about $208k for comparable roles.
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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.
DoorDash, Inc currently has 83 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $159,800–$235,000 across 82 roles with salary data.
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JOB TITLE: Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform - Gen AI You will join the GenAI Platform team to build production infrastructure for generative AI, specifically focusing on an open-weights model platform. Your daily responsibilities include developing real-time GPU serving, high-throughput batch inference, and model fine-tuning pipelines. You will work on backend services, GPU autoscaling, and observability while managing the LLM Gateway, Agent Gateway, and evals infrastructure. The role requires proficiency in Python and distributed systems to solve complex cost and latency challenges for frontier models like GLM, Qwen, Kimi, and DeepSeek. You will utilize techniques such as SFT, DPO, and LoRA to optimize performance. This position addresses the technical problem of creating durable platform primitives for production-grade automation, personalization, and agents across the company's multi-brand ecosystem.
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