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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Jul 28, 2026
Salary
$230,000–$270,000 a year
Full-time

Staff Motion Planning Software Engineer

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 real-time trajectory generation and decision-making for autonomous flight (search-based, sampling, MPC, convex/non-convex optimization).
  • Tackle joint optimization across safety, energy, time, and reliability—balancing mission goals with vehicle constraints.
  • Plan in uncertain environments with complex dynamics: robustness to wind/turbulence, degraded sensors, and partial observability.
  • Design safety-critical software for avoiding obstacles and interfacing with humans while delivering and picking up packages
  • Extend the autonomy stack for new aircraft and payloads; define clean interfaces with perception and controls.
  • Prove it before flight: large-scale sim, SIL/HIL, log replay, and fault-injection.
  • Mine real fleet data to validate safety metrics, improve models, and burn down long-tail failure modes.
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