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Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform - MDX

Doordash INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; • Seattle, WA

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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.

  • Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 396 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 147 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
  • The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
  • No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
  • What Doordash INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles15 certified filings for “Software Engineer, Machine Learning” (Data Scientists) in CA: $169k–$217k, median $188k. Most were filed at wage level II (43%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
  • Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.

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396 H-1B filings certified since Oct 2025

The US Department of Labor certified 396 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 147 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).

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About the role

About the Team Come help us build the world's most reliable on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're bringing on talented engineers to help us create and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. About the Role At DoorDash, our Data Scientists and ML Engineers have the opportunity to dive into a wealth of delivery data to improve company-wide ML workflows such as Search & Recommendations, Dasher Assignment, ETA Prediction, and Dasher Capacity Planning. You will join a small team to build systems that empower efficient machine learning at scale. This is a hybrid opportunity in San Francisco, Sunnyvale or Seattle. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… • Build a world-class ML platform where models are developed, trained, and deployed seamlessly • Work closely with Data Scientists and Product Engineers to evolve the ML platform as per their use cases • You will help build high performance and flexible pipelines that can rapidly evolve to handle new technologies, techniques and modeling approaches • You will work on infrastructure designs and solutions to store trillions of feature values and power hundreds of billions of predictions a day • You will help design and drive directions for the centralized machine learning platform that powers all of DoorDash's business. • Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of our training and inference infrastructure. We’re excited about you because… • B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent • Exceptionally strong knowledge of CS fundamental concepts and OOP languages • 2+ years of industry experience in software engineering • Prior experience building machine learning systems in production such as enabling data analytics at scale • Prior experience in machine learning - you've developed and deployed your own models - even if these are simple proof of concepts • Systems Engineering - you've built meaningful pieces of infrastructure in a cloud computing environment. Bonus if those were data processing systems or distributed systems Nice To Haves • Experience with challenges in real-time computing • Experience with large scale distributed systems, data processing pipelines and machine learning training and serving infrastructure • Familiar with Pandas and Python machine learning libraries and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow • Familiar with Spark, MLLib, Databricks,MLFlow, Apache Airflow, Dagster and similar related technologies. • Familiar with large language models like GPT, LLAMA, BERT, or Transformer-based architectures • Familiar with a cloud based environment such as AWS 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 a

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