Engineering Manager, Search Quality

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Door Dash is looking for an Engineering Manager with a ML background to lead the Search Quality engineering team. This team is responsible for the quality of the overall Search results on Door Dash and the various layers of multi-stage ranking, and multi-modal retrieval and query understanding enabling it.

You will lead a team of world-class ML engineers redefining the search experience through cutting edge approaches to query and document understanding, multi-modal and multi-stage ranking and strategic optimization.

• Lead and grow a team of exceptional machine learning engineers delivering on end-to-end search quality with state of the art ML approaches
• Leverage modern deep learning and LLM-based approaches to drive improvements in query understanding, retrieval, and multi-stage ranking within the Door Dash Search stack.
• Work with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders directly across Door Dash to define the roadmap and vision for the team and deliver immense impact
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking and teamwork
• Build an outstanding team by coaching and empowering engineers through delegation, and applying your technical expertise to hold your team to the highest engineering standards
• Scale the team by developing internal, and attracting top external talent

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
• 7+ years of industry experience
• Minimum of 2 years of leadership experience
• Broad knowledge of machine learning with strong ML modeling foundation
• Extensive experience in building user-facing product and working directly with product managers
• Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with teams spanning many disciplines
• Ability to guide and grow an excellent engineering team in a rapidly changing business environment
• Experience in leading successful application of machine learning to ranking and recommendation real-world problems is preferred

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

Door Dash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). Door Dash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado:

$193,800—$285,000 USD

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