Electrical Engineer - Consumer Electronics

About the Team

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 are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior/Staff electrical and firmware engineer who designs the board and writes the firmware for connected consumer and enterprise devices, including tablets, POS systems, peripherals, and emerging robotics applications.

In this role, you will take connected devices from ambiguous user or business needs through system architecture, rapid prototyping, board design, firmware implementation, bring-up, field deployment, and production transition.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate user and business needs into an integrated electrical and firmware architecture.
• Design compute-based, mixed-signal boards incorporating processors, power systems, sensors, wireless connectivity, displays, and other peripherals.
• Develop embedded firmware, selecting bare metal, FreeRTOS, embedded Linux, or Android based on product needs.
• Lead board bring-up, validation, and troubleshooting using lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, etc.).
• Prototype with new sensors and run experiments to determine whether useful, reliable signals can be extracted.
• Own the full lifecycle of electrical hardware from concept, schematic capture, layout review, through bring-up, validation, certification, and production handoff.
• Collaborate with mechanical, software, product, and operations partners while making tradeoffs among speed, reliability, cost, manufacturability, and user experience.
• Contribute across multiple programs — including merchant-facing hardware and emerging automation or robotics efforts — as business needs evolve.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on product-development experience spanning electrical hardware and embedded firmware.
• Experience taking customer-facing or field-deployed hardware from early concept through production, scaling designs beyond initial deployments.
• Hands-on experience personally designing a board and writing its production firmware on the same product.
• Depth in compute-based board design, embedded C/C++, board bring-up, and hardware debugging.
• Ability to independently develop a system architecture from incomplete requirements.
• Experience across power, wireless, sensors, and interfaces to lead the whole electrical system.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing tablets, POS systems, or other connected consumer/enterprise devices.
• Experience with regulatory compliance and certification processes (FCC, CE, etc.).
• Exposure to electromechanical or robotics systems.
• Experience shipping hardware at scale in customer-facing products.
• Experience working with in-house and contract manufacturing teams.