2 months ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
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
BackendRobotics
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.