Embedded Software Engineer - Labs

About the Team

Door Dash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for Door Dash, focusing on 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 robotics industries.

As of 2025, Door Dash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better.

We are looking for a Senior/Staff Embedded Software Engineer to lead the development and bring-up of ARM-based microcontroller platforms across our robotics products. This is a high-ownership role, directly responsible for building the low-level firmware that powers our platforms. You will design, implement, and validate firmware for motion control, sensor integration, communications, power management, and safety-critical functionality. This role comes with a strong expectation of hands-on board bring-up, low-level debugging, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with electrical and systems engineers.

• Own the firmware bring-up and integration for new embedded platforms (e.g. ARM Cortex-M series).
• Develop and maintain bare-metal firmware and RTOS-based applications for robotic subsystems (motor control, sensors, telemetry, power systems).
• Write and maintain robust, maintainable, and well-documented C/C++ code for embedded targets.
• Collaborate with the electrical engineering team on hardware bring-up, schematic review, and system integration.
• Lead system bringup, validation, and debug
• Contribute to firmware safety, reliability, and system-level robustness.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in embedded systems development.
• Deep expertise in bare-metal programming on ARM microcontrollers.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ for embedded targets and firmware design patterns.
• Experience with hardware bring-up and low-level debugging on custom boards.
• Solid understanding of digital electronics, buses (I2C, SPI, UART, CAN), and embedded peripherals.
• Strong system-level thinking, with an ability to work independently and take ownership across the full development cycle.

• Experience with RTOS (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr) or Embedded Linux on constrained systems.
• Familiarity with motor control, power systems, or battery management in robotics or automotive contexts.
• Experience working closely with hardware teams, reading schematics, and performing board-level debug.
• Familiarity with safety-critical systems, watchdogs, and fault handling.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-ownership engineering environments like those found in startups or advanced R&D teams

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

At Door Dash, 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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

Door Dash 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.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.