Member of Technical Staff - Applied AI

DoorDash’s mission is to empower local economies. In the Applied AI srole, you will be at the absolute forefront of agentic technology, building sophisticated AI agents end-to-end to help businesses grow, create deeply personalized customer experiences, and optimize our global logistics system at an unprecedented scale.

We have an applied AI lab at DoorDash, which is a team that is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This team is for builders who want to see their work directly impact millions of consumers, merchants, and dashers every day. We operate with a flat structure - everyone is expected to be hands-on and contribute directly to the mission. Initiative and consistent delivery are how people grow and lead here.

You'll work directly with our cofounder with direct ownership over the direction of AI research at DoorDash. In this role, you will build sophisticated AI agents end-to-end and develop robust evaluation methods to measure and improve agent performance. You will design systems and algorithms to enhance capability, as well as collect and curate human and synthetic data to optimize the behavior of these agent systems. This is hands-on work with immediate product impact at real-world scale.

• Work directly with leadership and see your research deployed at real-world scale - small team, massive reach.
• Move fast without bureaucracy - rapid iteration, high autonomy, and no layers of politics.
• Have access to global data scale, robust compute, and a platform primed for AI transformation.
• Shape how AI transforms commerce, building intelligent and adaptive experiences for millions of Consumers, Merchants, and Dashers.

• Experience with the latest AI tools building AI products
• Familiarity with building agent solutions, including context management, defining evals, measuring performance
• Shipped a production AI agent or something similar
• Experience at frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind) or top AI startups.
• A builder mindset - you're energized by experimentation, move quickly, and stay close to the work
• Strong cross-functional instincts and a natural ability to bring research and product teams together.

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