Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer

About The Team

The Consumer Engineering Team is responsible for helping consumers discover and order everything they love globally. Our work spans the entire consumer journey across homepage, search, store discovery, item exploration, checkout and post checkout. We aim to craft a hyper-personalized, delightful and frictionless experience for millions of our customers.

About The Role

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Core Cx, you will set the personalization (P13n) strategy for the entire consumer shopping journey and bring that strategy to life. You will use our robust data and machine learning infrastructure to implement new ML solutions to make the consumer search experience more relevant, seamless, and delightful across restaurant, grocery, retail and all business at DoorDash. You will modernize the recommendation system leveraging AI. You will demonstrate a strong command of production level machine learning, experience with solving end-user problems, and collaborate well with multi-disciplinary teams.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years of industry experience developing machine learning models with business impact, and shipping ML solutions to production.
• Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software.
• Proven ability to drive multi-quarter technical roadmaps as a technical lead, with clear ownership of architectural decisions.
• Deep expertise in deep learning, and fine-tuning. Hands-on experience optimizing LLM systems (e.g., fine-tuning, advanced prompting strategies, structuring JSON/tool-calling outputs).
• Strong technical intuition paired with the ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Humility and growth mindset, leading through expertise and collaboration, not hierarchy.

Qualifications

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