- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- Ann ArborMichiganUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Jul 15, 2026
- Salary
- $200,000–$240,000 a year
Autonomy Droid Perception SWE - Offboard Systems
Job description
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who…
Job responsibilities
- Own the design and implementation of computer vision ML models that run in the cloud (or on our brand new on-prem GPU cluster!), helping us support and scale our on-device perception models.
- Train and deploy large-scale models for semantic segmentation, feedforward 4D geometry, and learned preference modeling using aerial survey images, production deliveries and synthetic generated data.
- Design and ship tools that predict deliverability, generate high-fidelity priors, and reduce the operational friction of onboarding new customers in new environments.
- Design evaluation and validation infrastructure to ensure models behave reliably in the field.
- Zipline moves fast. On average, every 6 weeks, you will ship a new feature (or sometimes even a new model!) to production.
- At the Senior level, you'll lead architectural decisions, drive experimentation, and help the team push the limits of what’s possible with production-grade perception at scale.
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