Software Engineer, Intern - Labs (Summer 2027)

The posting, as DoorDash wrote it

About Labs

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We're hiring software engineer interns to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions to a service loved by millions of people, then we want to talk to you!

About the Teams

We are hiring Software Engineer interns across our Perception, Autonomy Platform, and DoorDash Air Cloud (Foundry) team. Please review the team descriptions below to learn about each. Selected candidates will be notified of which team is interested in pursuing their candidacy.

Perception: The Perception team helps Dot understand the world through vision foundation models and VLMs, supported by lidar and radar for safety. We tackle rare scenarios, adverse weather, and advances in reinforcement learning and end-to-end driving to make deliveries faster and smoother. We're seeking exceptional engineers in machine learning, computer vision, and state estimation to turn cutting-edge research into profitable autonomous delivery.

Autonomy Platform: The Autonomy Platform team is responsible for the software foundation that Dot runs on. We build a wide variety of software frameworks for ensuring the robot operates reliably at an ever-increasing scale. This includes everything from designing the robot's operating system, building petabyte-scale data processing pipelines in the cloud, and optimizing nanosecond-level compute of bleeding-edge AI models. We are systems-oriented thinkers and hands-on builders who are excited to advance the state of the art in autonomy.

Doordash Air Cloud (Foundry): The Air Cloud team, also known as Foundry, builds the cloud software that powers autonomous delivery across DoorDash—from the moment an order is placed and deemed eligible for drone or robot delivery, through merchant handoff, to flight management.

About the Role

We believe interns are essential to our mission of attracting and retaining top talent. During our 12-week Software Engineer internship, interns are completely immersed in their teams and will have the opportunity to develop, maintain, and ship products. As an intern, you will directly impact our business by collaborating with your team to solve real problems for our customers.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. to be considered for this position. F-1 students are eligible if they are using Curricular Practical Training (CPT). DoorDash does not support students on J-1 visas for internships at this time.

The 2027 internship program will be hosted in person at a Doordash Labs office in either San Francisco or Sunnyvale Labs. You will have an opportunity to select your preferred location(s) and team preferences during the application process.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Develop, maintain and ship technical elements with the support of your mentor, manager, and team members
• Act on

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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.

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