Firmware Validation & Integration Engineer

About the Team

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash exploring robotics and automation to transform last-mile logistics in the long term.

About the Role

We are hiring a Firmware Validation & Integration Engineer for our autonomy software team. This is a critical role to build robust and scalable validation for our firmware and systems to ensure reliability at every level. You will work with our electrical, firmware, and autonomy engineers to build the infrastructure and test suites required to validate the system, including designing and implementing Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation environments and automation frameworks from the ground up. You will report to the Autonomy Platform Lead at DoorDash Labs in a hybrid role with both in-office and remote work.

Responsibilities

• Play an integral role on a small and focused team.
• Design and build Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems to simulate vehicle dynamics and sensor data for comprehensive firmware and system-level validation.
• Develop automated test infrastructure and software tools to exercise multiple embedded platforms throughout the robot system.
• Interface with multiple layers of the control system (vehicle controls, power management, motion control) to ensure seamless system integration.
• Implement low-level test sequences and validation algorithms to safely stress-test vehicle components such as batteries, drive-train, and thermal management devices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify edge cases and hardware-software corner cases impacting vehicle safety and performance.

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in validation, integration, or HIL development for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other complex mechatronics systems.
• Proven experience designing and building HIL environments (e.g., using Speedgoat, dSPACE, NI, or custom-built Python/Linux-based racks).
• Experience with embedded source code for performing low-level troubleshooting and validation of system peripherals.
• Python and C++ experience for building test automation frameworks and software-based simulators.
• Solid understanding of digital electronics, buses (I2C, SPI, UART, CAN), and embedded peripherals for hardware-level troubleshooting.
• Knowledge and comfort working with hardware electrical systems for reading board schematics, bring-up, troubleshooting, and system validation.
• Working knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow for modeling and simulation.
• Comfortable using source control and build automation tools like Git, Jenkins, etc.
• Bonus: Experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams (software, controls, hardware) and communicating technical details across domains effectively.