Engineering Manager, Search Quality

B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent

7+ years of industry experience

Minimum of 2 years of leadership experience

Broad knowledge of machine learning with strong ML modeling foundation

Extensive experience in building user-facing product and working directly with product managers

Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with teams spanning many disciplines

You will lead a team of world-class ML engineers redefining the search experience through cutting edge approaches to query and document understanding, multi-modal and multi-stage ranking and strategic optimization .

Lead and grow a team of exceptional machine learning engineers delivering on end-to-end search quality with state of the art ML approaches

Leverage modern deep learning and LLM-based approaches to drive improvements in query understanding, retrieval, and multi-stage ranking within the DoorDash Search stack.

Work with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders directly across DoorDash to define the roadmap and vision for the team and deliver immense impact

Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking and teamwork

DoorDash is looking for an Engineering Manager with a ML background to lead the Search Quality engineering team. This team is responsible for the quality of the overall Search results on Doordash and the various layers of multi-stage ranking, and multi-modal retrieval and query understanding enabling it.

Our Search Quality team is a part of our Core Consumer org which owns the top of the conversion funnel from the initial landing page all the way to checkout across iOS, Android, and Web platforms. Quality is at the center of the Search teams’ mission. With a universal Search bar on the home page, as Doordash expands into new verticals like Grocery, the challenge of helping consumers easily find what they want grows exponentially, so the opportunity is massive!