Member of Technical Staff, Lead Researcher
Core
Founding researcher defining the agenda and infrastructure for a new AI Research organization at DoorDash, focusing on applying frontier ML to a massive real-world marketplace.
Role type
Principal-level founding researcher (strategy & hands-on IC)
Builds
A new AI Research org, novel research systems, and frontier ML models deployed at marketplace scale
Domain
AI Research, Machine Learning, Logistics, Local Commerce
Deliverable
production ML models | research
Required skills
Leading end-to-end research projects, setting research agendas, hiring and mentoring researchers, publishing at top venues, identifying high-leverage research problems, translating research to production
Preferred skills
Experience with agentic systems, reinforcement learning, foundation models, multimodal understanding, robotics/embodied AI
Technologies
Large language models, Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multimodal systems, Robotics frameworks
Responsibilities
Set the research agenda for one or more areas of DoorDash AI Research, Lead high-impact research projects end-to-end, Help build the team by interviewing and recruiting researchers, Partner across DoorDash with ML platform and product teams to identify research bets
Seniority
Principal, founding team
