The Senior Planner Engineer role at DoorDash Labs focuses on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team is composed of experienced professionals dedicated to creating technologies that improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in autonomy systems and will play a key role in solving critical challenges in motion planning. This position requires collaboration across various teams to ensure the delivery of robust and reliable autonomous systems.

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• You have proficiency in using AI coding tools in the full software development lifecycle.
• You have strong C++ software engineering experience building robust, production-quality systems.
• You have experience developing or deploying motion planning, robotics, or real-time decision-making systems.
• You are comfortable working with data-driven evaluation, simulation, and performance metrics.

• Design and ship real-time behavior and motion planning features for complex urban/suburb driving scenarios.
• Lead root-cause analysis and systematically eliminate planner-related disengagements and long-tail failures.
• Build scalable evaluation, simulation, and validation frameworks to ensure safe rollout to new geo-fenced regions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with perception, prediction, controls, and platform teams to deliver end-to-end autonomy improvements.
• Contribute to architecture decisions that improve planner robustness, generalization, and computational efficiency.