9h ago
Senior or Staff MLE - Droid Perception (Offboard)
South San Francisco, California, USA
$180k-$265k / year
full-timesenioraerospace
๐ Tech Stack
๐ผ About This Role
You'll own the design and implementation of cloud-side autonomy pipelines that directly support and scale Zipline's onboard perception stack. You'll leverage satellite imagery and aerial surveys to build semantic and geometric world models of customer delivery zones. This role offers huge autonomy to define the roadmap for production-grade perception at scale.
๐ฏ What You'll Do
- Design and implement cloud-side autonomy pipelines for perception
- Build semantic and geometric world models from aerial data
- Train and deploy segmentation, 3D geometry, and preference models
- Integrate offboard perception into fleet-wide autonomy systems
๐ Requirements
- 5+ years building and deploying deep learning-based perception systems
- Strong understanding of 3D geometry and semantic understanding from remote sensing
- Hands-on experience with CNN and transformer architectures in production
- Experience building training and evaluation pipelines for ML models
โจ Nice to Have
- Experience deploying models in autonomous systems or robotics
- Familiarity with data annotation pipelines and distributed training
๐ Benefits & Perks
- ๐ฐ Equity compensation included
- ๐๏ธ Overtime pay available
- โญ Autonomy to define roadmap and drive architectural decisions
- ๐ Impact delivering essential goods globally via autonomous drones
๐จ Hiring Process
Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate
- 1Recruiter Callยท 30 min
- 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
- 3Onsite (Hiring Manager + Team)ยท 3 hours
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