# Staff Software Engineer - Routing Engine at Zipline

- Company: Zipline
- What the company does: Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
- Company website: https://flyzipline.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-21
- Apply by: 2026-12-05
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/8040822003?gh_jid=8040822003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-staff-software-engineer-routing-engine/

## About the role

The Routing team determines how every Zipline aircraft moves through the world. You will design safe and efficient flight paths that guide Zips through complex, ever-changing airspace - navigating obstacles, uncertainty, and dynamic conditions in real time, with your work showing up in live flights every day. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Build the brain of the delivery network. You’ll design systems that determine how aircraft move through real-world airspace at global scale
- Real-world impact. Every improvement you make shows up in delivery speed, network throughput, and how reliably we operate
- Deep technical challenges. Routing sits at the intersection of optimization, distributed systems, real-time decision-making, and high-reliability infrastructure
- Real-time, high-availability services. Routing is a high-visibility service: low latency, deterministic behavior, strong SLAs, and robust fault-tolerance matter
- AI-accelerated engineering. We leverage modern AI and agentic workflows to increase engineering velocity while maintaining strong system rigor
- Experience operating low-latency, high-availability production services

Tags: Flight SW

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