# Perception & State Estimation Engineer - DoorDash Air

About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We're hiring a State Estimation & Perception Engineer in our Autonomy Software team. In this role, you'll own and develop the perception and state estimation for our package pickup and delivery system. You'll influence system design decisions, including sensor selection, sensing architecture, and observability analysis, at the earliest stage when choices still matter. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a small and focused team Own tuning and implementation of the state estimation stack on the drone (PX4 EKF modifications, fault tolerance, multi-sensor fusion with VIO and laser odometry) Own state estimation and perception of the delivery mechanism, including dynamics modeling, observation model design, and sensor selection Work closely with controls and planning to close the loop on automated pickup and delivery Work closely with the hardware team

- **Id**: 3751176
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/doordash-perception-state-estimation-engineer-doordash-air>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T08:08:35Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T15:06:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7547
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Delivery, Marketplaces

## Company

- **Id**: 3685
- **Name**: DoorDash
- **Domain**: doordash.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/doordash-usa>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 82
- **Ghost share**: 0.012
- **Stale share**: 0.585
- **Repost share**: 0.024
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 66
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 198600
- **Max**: 292000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 292000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **GTSAM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no
- **Visual-Inertial Odometry** — Optional: no
- **ArduPilot** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T15:15:11Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 504 · green card filings: 110; Filings 12m: 504

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 66
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 292000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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