- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Aug 26, 2026
Software Engineer, Airspace Platform
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 the design and delivery of airspace-management capabilities for one of the world’s most active commercial drone networks
- Build core services for shared-airspace coordination, flight deconfliction, and simulation
- Translate safety, operational, and interoperability requirements into clear system designs and product decisions
- Design systems for correctness, resilience, testability, observability, and auditability
- Own projects across the software lifecycle, from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, validation, rollout, and operation
- Design APIs and data models that support coordination across internal systems and external airspace participants
- Contribute to relevant open-source projects and industry interoperability efforts
- Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, thoughtful reviews, and mentorship
Job requirements
- Safety-critical, security-sensitive, real-time, or other high-consequence systems
- Simulation, optimization, geospatial systems, robotics, autonomy, or aviation
- Interoperability standards or open-source development
- AWS and Kubernetes at production scale
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