Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform - Gen AI

DoorDash, Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CASunnyvale, CASeattle, WA
Salary
$130,600–$192,000 / yr
Posted
3 days 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 · Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform - Gen AI

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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Median $214500 from 1223 postings across 78 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build production infrastructure for real-time GPU serving, high-throughput batch inference, and model fine-tuning.
  • Design scalable systems for GPU autoscaling, utilization, and backend services.
  • Develop and maintain the LLM Gateway, Agent Gateway, evals infrastructure, and guardrails.
  • Optimize GPU inference to reduce costs and latency for open-weight and closed-source models.
  • Build platforms that support rapid experimentation while meeting production standards for monitoring and SLOs.
  • Implement post-training techniques such as RLHF, RLVR, and agent optimization.
  • Develop cost attribution and observability tools for centralized GenAI platform services.

What we're looking for

  • B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 3+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals, especially in Python and distributed systems.
  • Experience building production services, APIs, data pipelines, or ML infrastructure at scale.
  • Experience operating systems in production, including observability, debugging, reliability, incident response, and performance/cost optimization.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM inference and/or fine-tuning of open-weight models in production.
  • Proficiency in using AI coding tools in the full software development lifecycle.
  • Experience with LLM inference engines, distributed fine-tuning, or GPU performance work (preferred).

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