Software Engineer, Planning & Controls - Autonomy & Robotics

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you!

We're hiring a Planning & Controls Engineer in our Autonomy Software team. In this role, you'll own and develop flight control, motion planning, and mission planning algorithms for robust, fault-tolerant drone delivery. This is a hands-on role: you will design controllers, implement them in C++ on embedded platforms, test them in flight, and iterate.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

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• Play an integral role on a small and focused team
• Develop and tune low-level flight control algorithms for overactuated multirotor and hybrid aircraft on embedded platforms
• Own the dynamics simulation and aerodynamics modeling of the aircraft
• Bring up and tune flight controllers on new drone platforms
• Develop, tune, and test fault-tolerant control (loss of one or more motors, safe landing, emergency behaviors)
• Build a trajectory motion planner for smooth flight and obstacle avoidance within the operating envelope
• Help develop the high-level mission route planner with fallback locations

We're excited about you because…

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• You have deep controls fundamentals: linear and nonlinear systems, stability analysis, controller synthesis and tuning, frequency domain analysis, optimization, and linear algebra
• You have excellent knowledge of C++ and embedded systems
• You bring dynamics modeling and simulation experience with aerodynamics knowledge
• You have experience developing and tuning flight controllers, interfacing with state estimation
• You have excellent knowledge of motion planning algorithms (trajectory optimization and nonlinear optimization, A*/D*/RRT variants)
• Y...