Senior UTM Engineer

The Senior UTM Engineer will build core components of DoorDash Air's internal route planning and airspace deconfliction stack. This is a role for someone who has already lived through the full lifecycle of a distributed, interoperable, uptime-critical system in a field where getting it wrong has real consequences — aviation, finance, communications, healthcare, or similar — and wants to bring that judgment to a fast-moving aerial delivery network.

What You Will Do

Design, build, and deploy interoperable services that must pass rigorous, often open-source, conformance and integration testing against external systems and partners. Develop novel path planning and airspace deconfliction algorithms that find safe, efficient routes through real-world, dynamic environments. Build tools that help our teams and systems evaluate and optimize airspace efficiency and utilization.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We’re excited about you because you have 5+ years of experience across the full lifecycle — design, build, deployment, and operation — of distributed systems in aviation, finance, communications, healthcare, or another field where interoperability, uptime, and (ideally) safety criticality are core drivers of the work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience across the full lifecycle — design, build, deployment, and operation — of distributed systems in aviation, finance, communications, healthcare, or another field where interoperability, uptime, and (ideally) safety criticality are core drivers of the work.
• Hands-on experience with path planning, routing, or deconfliction problems in real-world, dynamic environments — or the algorithmic depth to pick this up quickly (graph search, optimization, or motion planning fundamentals).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with the languages and paradigms common to safety- and uptime-critical distributed systems (e.g., C++, Python, Go, or similar, plus familiarity with real-time or fault-tolerant system design).
• BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Aerospace, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• 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
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program