GeoSpatial Engineer - DoorDash Air

DoorDash Labs is hiring a GeoSpatial Engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics. Responsibilities include building geospatial data pipelines (ingesting terrain, sensor logs, point clouds, building footprints), analyzing complex 3D environments (developing spatial algorithms for terrain classification and obstacle detection), scaling data infrastructure (designing high-performance spatial data storage and retrieval systems), and serving/visualizing map data (vector,

B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent; 6+ years industry experience as a geospatial engineer; experience with scientific Python and geospatial data science; knowledge of Coordinate Reference Systems; expert-level PostGIS; algorithmic mindset for geometric problems. Nice-to-haves include Kotlin, Java, Go, distributed computing (Spark), and 3D point cloud expertise (PDAL, PCL, Open3D/NumPy).