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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
Ann ArborMichiganUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Jul 22, 2026
Salary
$180,000–$260,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Simulation & Validation

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

  • Build and own the infrastructure for validating autonomous features and system performance across planning, perception, and control.
  • Design and develop simulation tools and scenario generation for large-scale and high-fidelity testing of autonomy under real-world and edge-case conditions.
  • Develop custom tools for validation and testing of autonomy components that plug into our internal autonomy development stack.
  • Create scalable, reliable, and automated solutions for running, tracking, and analyzing thousands of validation tasks across autonomy org.
  • Collaborate deeply with:
  • Autonomy engineers, to understand how system behavior should be evaluated.
  • Systems and data engineers, to ensure metrics, safety thresholds, and requirements are codified in test infrastructure.
  • Flight test and QA teams, to connect real-world results back into test tools and CI loops.

Job requirements

  • Primarily MATLAB/Simulink-based simulation experience
  • Roles focused mainly on systems engineering without hands-on software development
  • Infrastructure- or DevOps-focused roles without experience in autonomy or simulation
  • QA/QC-focused verification roles without significant software engineering ownership
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