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About the Role

We're hiring a Senior UTM Engineer to build core components of DoorDash Air's internal route planning and airspace deconfliction stack. This role involves designing, building, and deploying interoperable services, developing novel path planning and airspace deconfliction algorithms, and creating tools to optimize airspace efficiency. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and represent DoorDash Air externally.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy interoperable services that must pass rigorous, often open-source, conformance and integration testing against external systems and partners.
• Develop novel path planning and airspace deconfliction algorithms that find safe, efficient routes through real-world, dynamic environments.
• Build tools that help our teams and systems evaluate and optimize airspace efficiency and utilization.
• Design integrations that connect the deconfliction stack to existing DoorDash systems, translating mission and airspace status into terms internal stakeholders can act on.
• Collaborate closely with systems engineering, commercial operations, and flight operations to ship features that hold up in real-world flight.
• Represent DoorDash Air externally — engaging with peer companies, working groups, and standards bodies to improve interoperable deployments industry-wide and help shape the.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience across the full lifecycle — design, build, deployment, and operation — of distributed systems in aviation, finance, communications, healthcare, or another field where interoperability, uptime, and (ideally) safety criticality are core drivers of the work.
• Built and shipped production services that had to interoperate with systems you didn't control, including passing external or open-source conformance/certification testing.
• Hands-on experience with path planning, routing, or deconfliction problems in real-world, dynamic environments — or the algorithmic depth to pick this up quickly (graph search, optimization, or motion planning fundamentals).
• Comfortable building evaluation and analysis tooling, not just the systems being evaluated — you like giving other teams visibility into system performance and efficiency.
• Ability to design clean integrations across organizational boundaries and translate technical system state into language that commercial, operations, and non-engineering stakeholders understand.
• Strong communication skills with non-technical stakeholders and comfort representing your work and your company externally — in standards working groups, industry forums, or direct collaboration with peers at other companies.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with the languages and paradigms common to safety- and uptime-critical distributed systems (e.g., C++, Python, Go, or similar, plus familiarity with real-time or fault-tolerant system design).
• BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Aerospace, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

• Path planning
• Airspace deconfliction
• Distributed systems
• Interoperability
• Uptime-critical systems
• Safety criticality
• Graph search
• Optimization
• Motion planning
• Evaluation tooling
• Analysis tooling
• System integration
• C++
• Python
• Go
• Real-time systems
• Fault-tolerant system design
• UAS traffic management (UTM)
• Airspace management
• Air traffic control
• Technical standards bodies
• Open-source interoperability
• DO-178
• ARP4761
• Embedded systems
• Graceful degradation under partial failure

Location

• United States
• Illinois
• Colorado
• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 5+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Aerospace, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Salary/Compensations

• $198,600—$292,000 USD

Benefits

• Opportunities for equity grants
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits match
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability insurance
• Basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program
• Flexible paid time off/vacation (for salaried roles)
• 80 hours of paid sick time per year (for salaried roles)

About the Company

• 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.
• At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers.
• We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
• DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers.
• We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Equal Opportunity

• We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
• Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
• If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.