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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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Staff Simulation Engineer - Foundry, DoorDash Air is a technical leadership role within DoorDash Labs focused on building an end-to-end aerial autonomy simulation stack. The engineer will serve as the technical authority for simulation architecture, developing high-fidelity capabilities including flight dynamics modeling, contact modeling, sensor and perception simulation, and software-in-the-loop integration. They will design scalable infrastructure to support CI/CD regression testing, mission-level scenario generation, and cloud-deployed systems for large-scale parallel testing and pilot training. The role requires expertise in numerical integration methods, rigid-body dynamics, constraint solving, collision detection, and rendering pipelines. Candidates should be proficient with tools like MuJoCo, Gazebo, Isaac, Newton, or Genesis. This position addresses the technical challenge of creating a robust simulation platform to validate flight autonomy and autopilot software for aerial systems while mentoring a small team of engineers.
Python
SQL
C++
Git
SIL
HIL
Flight Test Engineering
Aerodynamics
GNC
Electric Propulsion
Battery Modeling
Data Visualization
Root Cause Analysis
Instrumentation
Automation