DoorDash USA
Flight Test Engineer
About this role
DoorDash Labs seeks a Flight Test Engineer to design, execute, and analyze flight tests for next-generation delivery aircraft. You'll bridge engineering and operations teams, turning technical requirements into safe, instrumented test campaigns and delivering data-driven insights to drive vehicle performance and reliability improvements.
What you'll do
- Plan and execute flight tests to evaluate vehicle performance, control behavior, and system reliability
- Act as primary interface between engineering and flight test operations, translating requirements into test objectives
- Analyze flight test data to assess vehicle dynamics, control performance, and subsystem interactions
- Develop Python and SQL tools for flight data visualization, trend detection, and performance assessment
- Use SIL and HIL environments to validate software updates, control algorithms, and sensor integrations
- Identify and quantify failures and reliability trends to drive root cause analysis and improvements
What they're looking for
- Flight test engineering and test planning
- Python and SQL for data analysis and automation
- Flight test instrumentation and data reduction
- Git version control and collaborative development
- Vehicle dynamics and control systems analysis
- C++ code review (reading embedded/autonomy code)
- Electric aircraft systems and propulsion integration
- Cross-functional communication and problem-solving
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off and paid sick leave
- 11 paid holidays
- Commuter benefits match
- Equity grant opportunities
Opens the application — the Jobs AI extension fills it for you. Set up autofill
Opens the official application on the employer’s site. No login required.
DoorDash USA
DoorDash USA is building autonomous delivery systems including drones and robots, along with internal infrastructure platforms to support large-scale operations. The company is hiring robotics engineers, autonomous systems specialists, infrastructure engineers, and platform software engineers to develop flight control systems, mapping and localization capabilities, and distributed computing platforms.
View all jobs at DoorDash USALikely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience designing and executing a flight test campaign—what were the key objectives and how did you ensure data quality?
- Describe a time you identified a critical issue in flight test data. How did you analyze it and communicate findings to stakeholders?