Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI

About the Team

DoorDash’s mission is to empower local economies. As a Full Stack Engineer on our Applied AI team, you’ll build the products that bring AI agents to life, from the interfaces customers, merchants, and Dashers interact with, to the backend services and infrastructure that power them at global scale.

We have an applied AI lab at DoorDash, 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.

About the Role

You’ll work directly with our cofounder and own major pieces of how AI shows up in DoorDash’s products. In this role, you will build complete product experiences end-to-end, including web and mobile frontends, APIs, backend services, and data pipelines, that turn AI agent capabilities into polished, reliable features. You’ll partner closely with researchers to take prototypes to production, build internal tools that speed up iteration, and design systems that hold up under real-world traffic. This is hands-on work with immediate product impact at real-world scale.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Work directly with leadership and see your work shipped to millions of users, with a small team and massive reach.
• Move fast without bureaucracy, with rapid iteration, high autonomy, and no layers of politics.
• Own features across the entire stack, from UI to infrastructure, rather than a narrow slice.
• 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 Consumers, Merchants, and Dashers.

We’re excited about you because you have…

• Strong full stack engineering experience, with depth in modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React, TypeScript) and backend development (e.g. Python, Go, Kotlin, or Java).
• Experience designing and shipping production systems, including APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on reliability and performance.
• A track record of shipping user-facing products quickly and iterating based on real usage.
• Interest in AI and familiarity with integrating LLMs or AI APIs into products (prior agent or ML experience is a plus, not a requirement).
• 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 bridge product, design, and research.

Compensation

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.

DoorDash 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). DoorDash 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.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:

• 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.

$203,500—$299,300 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

Notice Regarding Use of AI and Automated Tools: To streamline our hiring process, DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Metaview.

How it works: Metaview assists our recruiting team by evaluating job related qualifications and characteristics in connection with hiring. The tool is designed and used to support - rather than replace - human decision-making; trained personnel make final decisions with meaningful human review and oversight, and DoorDash does not use Metaview or other AI-enabled tool in a manner that has the effect of subjecting applicants or employees to discrimination based on any protected characteristic or proxy or for engaging in any protected activity under applicable law.

Data Retention, Privacy & Bias Audit: Data collected during this process is retained in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy https://help.doordash.com/en-us/legal/article/ax-privacy-notice and applicable state laws. In compliance with New York City Local Law 144, the independent bias audit summary for Metaview is publicly available for review at https://trust.warden-ai.com/metaview/application-review.