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AI Tooling Software Engineer - Data Platform, Autonomy

Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA · On-site

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About Zipline

Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.

About the role

As an AI tooling engineer on the Autonomy team, you will build and scale the systems that help our teams visualize, annotate, debug, and extract signals from vehicles making real-world deliveries every day. These tools sit near the top of the data funnel and power the feedback loop that improves model and hardware performance and the customer experience. We are looking for an experienced software generalist or someone with exceptional depth in frontend or backend systems. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Build sophisticated, multimodal data triage and visualization interfaces for Zipline’s data pipelines so teams can investigate critical autonomy problems
  • Build scalable backend APIs and real-time data pipelines for querying, filtering, and aggregating large datasets
  • Design database schemas, indexes, and query strategies that keep search and analysis fast at scale
  • Partner with autonomy, service, maintenance, and operations teams to improve workflows and build tools for development, troubleshooting, and fleet health
More about this role

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.

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...

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