Zipline

Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Operations

Zipline
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South San Francisco, CA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$113k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own GenAI strategy and implementation for high-impact operational workflows and teams.
  • Build, deploy, and maintain end-to-end AI tools used in daily operations.
  • Solve practical problems across aviation, logistics, fulfillment, maintenance, customer operations, and commercial teams.
  • Partner with operators, engineers, product teams, and business leaders to define user needs and technical approaches.
  • Bring field learnings back into Zipline’s broader AI tooling, platforms, and best practices.
  • Travel to Zipline headquarters and field sites as needed, potentially up to 50% of the time.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience building, shipping, automating, scaling, or otherwise delivering useful production systems; no specific degree is required.
  • Experience building GenAI solutions and a strong understanding of the AI landscape.
  • Experience with LLMs, data-processing pipelines, and analytics tools.
  • Foundational machine learning knowledge, including evaluation, training concepts, and problem decomposition.
  • Strong coding ability in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C++, or similar languages.
  • Ability to decompose ambiguous business problems into reliable technical workflows.
  • Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical teammates and iterate directly with users.
  • Interest and ability to travel to Zipline sites as needed, potentially up to 50%.

Benefits

  • In-office role based at Zipline’s South San Francisco headquarters.
  • Potential travel to headquarters or field sites up to 50% of the time.
  • Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, equity compensation, overtime pay, and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.

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Forward Deployed
Zipline

About Zipline

1,001-5,000 employees

Zipline was founded to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges. Leveraging expertise in robotics and autonomy, Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest automated delivery system. Zipline serves tens of millions of people around the world and is making good on the promise of building an equitable and more resilient global supply chain. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart and enabling leading healthcare providers to bring care into the home in the United States, Zipline is transforming the way goods move. By transitioning to clean, electric, instant logistics, we can decarbonize delivery, decrease road congestion, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access for billions of people. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Zipline is inspiring people, governments, and businesses to imagine what is possible when goods can move as seamlessly as information. To join the team, check out our career page: https://flyzipline.com/careers/

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