- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Aug 21, 2026
- Salary
- $160,000–$220,000 a year
Senior Data Scientist
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
- Lead analysis and decision systems for priority domains including pricing, routing, fleet utilization, charging strategy, experimentation, and network planning.
- Frame ambiguous business and product questions, select the right analytical approach, and make clear recommendations with tradeoffs and expected impact.
- Build machine learning, statistical, optimization, forecasting, and simulation models for marketplace, operational, and product decisions.
- Design and analyze A/B tests, quasi-experiments, causal studies, and metric frameworks to evaluate features, policies, and growth interventions.
- Partner with engineers to productionize models, decision systems, data products, and experimentation infrastructure.
- Own post-launch decision quality by monitoring model and KPI performance, identifying drift or missed outcomes, and driving iterations with engineering and operating partners.
- Communicate complex findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, aligning teams on decisions that improve reliability, utilization, customer experience, and unit economics.
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