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# Senior/Staff Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer

- **Company:** DOORDASH, INC.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $168,000.0 - $247,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Software Engineering, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=39fbeaf35d4af7f2

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Software testing?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, or a related field, with a strong foundation in reinforcement learning and deep learning.

 * You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software
 * Hands-on experience training RL agents at scale, ideally in robotics, autonomous driving, or other real-time decision-making domains.
 * Proficiency in JAX or a similar functional ML framework; comfort with JIT compilation, vectorized environments, and GPU-accelerated simulation.
 * Deep grasp of core RL concepts: policy gradients, value functions, exploration-exploitation, model-based RL, reward shaping, and sim-to-real transfer.
 * Data-driven mindset: comfortable building experiment pipelines, analyzing training runs, and letting metrics guide architectural decisions., * Publications at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, ICRA) on RL or learned planning.
 * Experience building or working with GPU-accelerated simulators for RL training.
 * Track record of shipping a learned component in a production robotics or autonomous vehicle stack.

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## Description

As a Senior/Staff Deep RL Engineer, you will design, train, and deploy deep reinforcement learning policies that make real-time driving decisions for our autonomous vehicles. You will own the full lifecycle, from problem formulation and reward design through large-scale distributed training to on-vehicle inference. You'll help define how learned components compose with the rest of the autonomy stack to produce robust, shippable behavior.


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