Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Causal Inference

DoorDash USA · San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City

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Company
DoorDash USA
Location
San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City
Salary
$203,500 — $299,300
Posted
August 18, 2026

About this job

We are looking for someone who has built or deeply worked on production causal systems: uplift models, heterogeneous treatment effect models, surrogate metrics, experimentation platforms, counterfactual policy evaluation, promotion optimization, or marketplace decisioning systems. You will join a small, senior pod of causal ML and econometrics experts working across ML, Analytics, Product, and Engineering. The mandate is to build the causal spine for a large-scale consumer marketplace. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Design, build, and productionize causal ML systems that influence real marketplace decisions across New Verticals. Build uplift / heterogeneous treatment effect models for consumer lifecycle value, promotions, retention, and reactivation.…

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