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Zipline

Senior or Staff MLE - Droid Perception (Offboard)

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11 days ago
South San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+

Base Salary

$180k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and implementation of cloud-side autonomy pipelines.
  • Leverage satellite imagery and aerial surveys to build semantic and geometric world models.
  • Design and ship tools that predict deliverability and reduce operational friction.
  • Train and deploy mid- to large-scale models for semantic segmentation and 3D geometry.
  • Design evaluation and validation infrastructure for model reliability.
  • Work across engineering to integrate your work into fleet-facing autonomy systems.
  • Lead architectural decisions and drive experimentation.

Requirements

  • At least 5+ years of experience building and deploying deep learning-based perception systems.
  • Strong understanding of classical computer vision and modern ML approaches.
  • Hands-on experience with CNN and transformer architectures in production environments.
  • An engineering mindset focused on outcomes over experimentation.
  • Familiarity with building training, data annotation, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Comfort working across systems, including data pipelines and training infrastructure.
  • Experience deploying models in real-world, high-stakes robotics or autonomy applications is a plus.

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AI & MLBackendData Science