Zipline is looking to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are, and to transform the way goods move by decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience developing software for hardware products in a safety-critical field, e.g. aerospace, robotics, medical devices, autonomous vehicles
- Expertise in writing safety critical code in one or more of: Rust, C++, C
- Demonstrated technical leadership in a production environment, writing software that runs on complex autonomous systems that operate in the real world
- Knowledge of planning and search algorithms with industry experience in robotics, manipulation, or autonomous driving
- Ability to build and use simulation and data analysis tools for evaluating system performance
- Experience building real-world robotics systems and handling the long-tail corner cases to ensure high uptime systems
Responsibilities
- Develop onboard motion planning and decision-making software for our fleet of delivery drones
- Enable the next level of scale for our life-saving service via fleet-wide coordination and deconfliction algorithms
- Build and use simulation tools to determine the impact of new features before deploying them to the field
- Analyze real data from thousands of flights to ensure the system is operating safely and efficiently
- Architect new components of our autonomy stack as we extend the capability of our software to meet the challenges of new products and platforms
- Mentor junior engineers and influence technical direction for the team
- Work alongside the perception team to drive their subsystem requirements
Other
- Degree requirements not specified, but professional experience is required
- Travel requirements not specified
- Must be able to work in a diverse engineering team and communicate effectively
- Must be able to pick up new skills and share knowledge
- Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type
