🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll build real-time trajectory generation and decision-making for autonomous flight at Zipline, the world's largest drone delivery service. Your work will directly impact scaling from thousands to tens of thousands of deliveries per day in dense U.S. metros. This high-leverage role offers ownership of the flight stack that shapes a global autonomous fleet.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Build real-time trajectory generation and decision-making for autonomous flight.
• Design collision avoidance and multi-agent planning scaling to 10,000+ flights/day.
• Jointly optimize safety, energy, time, and reliability under constraints.
• Plan in uncertain environments with chance-constraints and degraded sensors.

📋 Requirements

• Master's degree in CS or related field and 3+ years in safety-critical systems.
• Strong in Rust/C++/C for real-time, fault-tolerant code on embedded/Linux.
• Depth in planning search (A*/anytime/RRT*/sampling), trajectory optimization/MPC, or multi-agent deconfliction.
• Hands-on with simulation at scale (SIL/HIL, log replay, metrics-driven validation).

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with fleet deconfliction and airspace traffic management.
• Background in aerospace, autonomous vehicles, or robotics.
• Familiarity with scenario libraries and fault-injection testing.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Equity compensation included in total package.
• 🏥 Medical, dental, and vision insurance provided.
• 🌴 Paid time off offered.
• 🎯 Discretionary annual or performance bonuses possible.
• 💵 Sales incentives for applicable roles.

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical Phone Interview· 60 min
3. 3On-site Interviews (3-4 rounds)· 4 hours