Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build optimization algorithms that compute global aircraft routes at scale.
- Develop real-time, low-latency, deterministic, and fault-tolerant routing services.
- Solve path planning, graph search, motion planning, and related optimization problems.
- Operate high-availability production systems with strong service-level requirements.
- Collaborate with autonomy and flight operations teams to support live flight operations.
- Drive high-impact projects end to end and contribute to AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Requirements
- Experience operating low-latency, high-availability production services.
- Hands-on experience with path planning, graph search, motion planning, or related optimization problems.
- Strong backend or distributed-systems engineering fundamentals.
- Ability to take ownership of projects and work through ambiguous, high-impact problems.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional autonomy and operations teams.
- Willingness to learn technologies quickly; specific experience with the listed stack is not required.
Benefits
- The role may include equity compensation, discretionary annual or performance bonuses, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and paid time off.
- The position may be hired at the Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer, or Staff Software Engineer level based on experience, skills, and demonstrated scope.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Zipline
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/