Layout Engineer - Labs, DoorDash Air
DoorDash · San Francisco, United States · 2mo ago
About Us
DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better.
About The Team
DoorDash Labs is building the future of drone delivery, and you'll be our sole PCB Layout Engineer — owning the physical design of the electronics that get our aircraft flying and keep them safe. You'll take boards from schematic handoff through fabrication, assembly, and bring-up, turning complex mixed-signal designs into manufacturable, flight-ready hardware
About The Role
This is a high-ownership role on a small, highly senior team. You'll be the layout expert the hardware team relies on, partnering daily with electrical, mechanical, power, reliability, and manufacturing engineers. If you love owning the entire layout problem end-to-end — power, RF, and high-speed digital on the same dense board — and want your work flying on real aircraft delivering to real customers, we'd love to talk.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end PCB layout in Altium Designer — floorplanning, component placement, routing, and release to fabrication and assembly.
- Design dense, multi-layer, controlled-impedance boards that combine power/motor-drive, RF/comms, and high-speed digital on a single flight-ready assembly.
- Optimize layouts for the size, weight, and thermal constraints of airborne hardware while meeting signal- and power-integrity requirements.
- Own DFM/DFA/DFT and produce complete fabrication and assembly packages — stackups, fab/assembly drawings, and Gerber/ODB++ outputs.
- Apply EMI/EMC-aware layout and grounding strategies to meet reliability and regulatory requirements.
- Create and maintain footprint/component libraries and establish layout standards for a fast-growing hardware program.
- Partner closely with EE, mechanical, power, reliability, and manufacturing teams, and support board bring-up, debug, and rework.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent hands-on PCB layout experience.
- 8+ years of hands-on PCB layout experience, with a portfolio of complex, shipped multi-layer boards.
- Expert-level proficiency in Altium Designer.
- Proven ability to own board layout end-to-end, from placement and routing through fabrication and assembly release.
- Strong command of signal integrity, power integrity, and controlled-impedance design (return paths, decoupling, stackup, and plane design).
- Experience with mixed-signal layout spanning power, RF, and high-speed digital domains.
- Working knowledge of DFM/DFA and IPC standards (e.g., IPC-2221/2222, IPC-A-600/610).
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to work independently as the sole layout owner.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with drone/UAV, aerospace, robotics, or EV (flight or motion) hardware.
- Rigid-flex and flex PCB layout for weight- and space-constrained designs.
- RF and antenna layout (GPS, 2.4/5 GHz, cellular/telemetry) with controlled impedance.
- High-current power, ESC, or motor-drive layout experience.
- ECAD↔MCAD co-design (Altium with SolidWorks or Creo).
- High-reliability or harsh-environment design (vibration, thermal cycling).
- Experience standing up layout processes and standards in an early-stage hardware organization.
Compensation
The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
See below for paid time off details:
- For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
- For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).
About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
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