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Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of airspace-management capabilities for Zipline’s commercial drone network.
- Build core services for shared-airspace coordination, flight deconfliction, and simulation.
- Translate safety, operational, and interoperability requirements into system designs and product decisions.
- Design systems for correctness, resilience, testability, observability, and auditability.
- Own projects from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, validation, rollout, and operation.
- Design APIs and data models supporting coordination across internal systems and external airspace participants.
- Contribute to open-source projects and industry interoperability efforts.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, and raising engineering standards.
Requirements
- Track record of designing and delivering reliable software systems in complex or high-consequence environments.
- Strong experience with distributed systems, service architecture, APIs, and data modeling.
- Ability to make and communicate engineering tradeoffs under ambiguity.
- Experience operating production services in a modern cloud environment.
- Experience owning technically complex projects from definition through production.
- Product mindset and empathy for operators, partners, and system users.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Aviation experience is not required.
- Helpful experience includes safety-critical, security-sensitive, real-time, simulation, optimization, geospatial, robotics, autonomy, aviation, interoperability standards, open-source development, AWS, and Kubernetes.
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About Zipline
Zipline designs, builds, and operates autonomous drone delivery systems for healthcare, retail, and public-sector customers. The privately held company runs end-to-end logistics—aircraft, software, and fulfillment—to deliver blood, vaccines, medicines, and consumer goods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Zipline operates across multiple continents; notable work includes Rwanda’s national blood deliveries and U.S. home delivery pilots with Walmart.