Base Salary
$230k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build real-time trajectory generation and decision-making systems for autonomous flight using search, sampling, model predictive control, and optimization methods.
- Optimize safety, energy, time, and reliability while accounting for vehicle constraints.
- Develop robust planning for uncertain environments involving wind, turbulence, degraded sensors, and partial observability.
- Design safety-critical software for obstacle avoidance and interactions with people during package delivery and pickup.
- Extend the autonomy stack for new aircraft and payloads and define interfaces with perception and controls.
- Validate autonomy software through large-scale simulation, SIL/HIL, log replay, and fault injection.
- Analyze fleet data to validate safety metrics, improve models, and reduce long-tail failure modes.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- At least 7 years of experience building software for safety-critical systems in aerospace, autonomous vehicles, or robotics.
- Strong proficiency in Rust, C++, and C for real-time, fault-tolerant software on embedded/Linux systems.
- Deep experience with planning and search methods such as A*, anytime planning, RRT*, and sampling, as well as trajectory optimization and MPC.
- Hands-on experience with simulation at scale, SIL/HIL, log replay, and metrics-driven validation.
- Demonstrated experience shipping production autonomy software through ambiguous and noisy real-world conditions.
- Ability to own reliability outcomes and collaborate with perception, controls, and flight operations teams.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off.
- The total compensation package may include equity compensation and discretionary annual or performance bonuses.
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/