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 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.
- Sound engineering judgment and ability to communicate tradeoffs under ambiguity.
- Experience operating production services in a modern cloud environment.
- Experience owning technically complex projects from definition through production.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- AWS and Kubernetes production-scale experience is helpful.
- Helpful experience includes safety-critical, security-sensitive, real-time, simulation, optimization, geospatial, robotics, autonomy, aviation, interoperability standards, or open-source development.
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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/