Senior Machine Learning Engineer, New Verticals Agentic Foundations
DoorDash USA·San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WA; NewYork, NY·Posted 13 October 2026
About the role
About the Team Agentic Foundations, part of New Verticals ML, builds the core AI/ML intelligence that powers high-quality, scalable agents at DoorDash, and proves it through flagship agent experiences such as the Ask grocery assistant. We operate as a closed loop: new models, evals, and representations make our agents better, and real-world agent usage surfaces the gaps that drive our next foundations work. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join Agentic Foundations with a primary focus on Vertical Agent Development. You will own the continuous improvement of our flagship agents, starting with the Ask Assistant, using an eval-driven loop to make them faster, more cost-efficient, and more reliable for millions of customers. You will also help us bring this approach to new agentic experiences for Merchants and Dashers, turning promising ideas into production-ready agents. This is a chance to work at the intersection of LLMs, agents, post-training, and evals on problems that ship. You will partner closely with engineers working on agentic memory, agent-compatible product representations, and post-training of small language models (SLMs), so that…
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