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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Jul 21, 2026
Salary
$200,000–$240,000 a year
Full-time

Autonomy Droid Perception SWE - Onboard 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

  • Implement, train and evaluate real-time 3D perception models that work with two or more cameras across one or more timesteps
  • Deploy and run these models onboard a resource-constrained computer, finding ways to optimize and reduce compute and memory footprints
  • Build visualization, introspection and eval tooling to deeply understand model performance both on test datasets as well as “in the wild”
  • Work closely with the motion planning team, building an expressive yet compact interface between the two subsystems and tracking the right metrics to ensure we’re always hill-climbing towards a better overall system
  • 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 own outcomes for a particular model head or backbone.
  • Stay up to date with research in the field, drive experimentation, go to conferences and help keep Zipline’s ML modeling stack in lockstep with powerful new paradigms in real-time compute-constrained 3D perception
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