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Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform - Gen AI

DoorDash

Location

San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

10/15/2026

Compensation

$130,600 - $192,000 per year

Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202697.5% approval+1% YoY
💎 Strong sponsor

Job description

The role is focused on building production infrastructure for Generative AI at DoorDash, specifically on the open-weights model platform that includes real-time GPU serving and fine-tuning. The team aims to enhance the velocity of business impact from AI by developing scalable systems for model serving and batch inference. Engineers will work on optimizing cost and performance in a rapidly evolving technical landscape. Collaboration with various teams across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo is essential to transform GenAI capabilities into robust platform features.

Requirements

  • B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 3+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals, especially in Python and distributed systems.
  • Experience building production services, APIs, data pipelines, or ML infrastructure at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM inference and/or fine-tuning of open-weight models in production.

Responsibilities

  • Build the infrastructure that helps DoorDash teams move GenAI ideas from prototype to production.
  • Work on the open-weights serving stack, including real-time GPU endpoints and high-throughput batch inference.
  • Design scalable, high-performance systems for model serving, batch inference, and GPU autoscaling.
  • Push the cost and latency frontier of GPU inference to improve efficiency.
  • Partner closely with ML engineers, product engineers, and data scientists to develop platform capabilities.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Doordash Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

92

FY2026

Approval rate

97.5%

FY2026

LCA certified

140

FY2026

Entry-level share

20.7%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+1%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-74%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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