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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer
DoorDash
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San Francisco, United States
Location
San Francisco
Posted
June 06, 2026
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Job Description
About the Team
The Ads & Promos Delivery team powers the last-mile delivery of ads and promotions, two marketing products offered to merchants, connecting merchant intent with consumer demand across search and discovery experiences. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will lead the technical direction for AI-first experiences, including ranking and relevance systems that sit at the core of our ads marketplace and shape how ads are selected, ordered, and personalized in real time across all verticals.
You will design and build next-generation AI-first ranking systems using state-of-the-art techniques such as sequence modeling, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs). Your work will span query understanding, user and merchant representation learning, contextual relevance, and multi-objective optimization, balancing advertiser value, consumer experience, and marketplace health at scale.
You will set the long-term technical vision, drive cross-team alignment, and tr...
The Ads & Promos Delivery team powers the last-mile delivery of ads and promotions, two marketing products offered to merchants, connecting merchant intent with consumer demand across search and discovery experiences. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will lead the technical direction for AI-first experiences, including ranking and relevance systems that sit at the core of our ads marketplace and shape how ads are selected, ordered, and personalized in real time across all verticals.
You will design and build next-generation AI-first ranking systems using state-of-the-art techniques such as sequence modeling, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs). Your work will span query understanding, user and merchant representation learning, contextual relevance, and multi-objective optimization, balancing advertiser value, consumer experience, and marketplace health at scale.
You will set the long-term technical vision, drive cross-team alignment, and tr...