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At a glance
DoorDash is hiring an Autonomy Simulation Engineer in Oakland, CA. It is a full-time role in Software & IT. The advertised pay is $198,600–$292,000 a year. The description mentions C++, Python, Linux, Git, Machine learning and Excel. DoorDash has 99 other openings in the US, 4 of them in Oakland, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 24 Software & IT openings in Oakland, CA today; the typical one asks for 5 years and advertises about $192,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
DoorDash advertises $198,600 to $292,000 a year, a midpoint of $245,300 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is higher than about 70% of the 1,245 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $214,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
Skills in this advert
How often each skill named in this advert appears across the 4,388 software & IT jobs we list today. Python is the most widely requested (30% of jobs), while Excel is the least common (4%). Widely requested skills are what employers expect as a baseline; rarer ones show what is special about this job.
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- Location. Based in Oakland, CA.
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About hiring at DoorDash
DoorDash has 100 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 33 states. Most are in software & IT (21), operations (21) and marketing (12). The biggest locations are San Francisco, CA (56), New York, NY (40) and Seattle, WA (28). 12% of them are remote, 6% are open to entry-level candidates and 94% show pay. We collect DoorDash's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Greenhouse), never from job boards or agencies.
From DoorDash's advert
The Simulation team builds software, models, and environments to test on-road autonomous robot behavior and evaluate autonomy changes before deployment.
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