Staff Motion Planning Software Engineer
Zipline (1 month ago)
About this role
Senior/Staff Software Engineer on Zipline’s Autonomy Motion Planning team responsible for shaping trajectory planning and decision-making for large-scale autonomous drone delivery. The role focuses on enabling safe, reliable, and efficient operations at fleet scale by driving architecture and product decisions. It involves working across perception, controls, and flight operations to validate safety and robustness in real-world conditions.
Required Skills
- Trajectory Generation
- Decision Making
- Search Planning
- Sampling
- MPC
- Optimization
- Collision Avoidance
- Multi-Agent Planning
- Fleet Deconfliction
- Chance Constraints
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Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or Related Field
About Zipline
flyzipline.comZipline is the world's largest autonomous delivery system, using long-range drones and end-to-end logistics software to provide on-demand delivery of medical supplies, retail goods, and other critical items. Its platform combines custom aircraft, automated distribution centers, and routing/operations software to deliver quickly and reliably for hospitals, governments, and commercial partners across the U.S., Africa, and other markets. Zipline specializes in time-critical payloads—blood, vaccines, emergency supplies—and integrates with existing supply chains through partnerships with health ministries, hospitals, and retailers. Customers choose Zipline for its proven safety, high-uptime operations, and ability to scale instant logistics in challenging geographies.
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