Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
About the role
Our distinctive challenges require that we understand the ins and outs of our performance. We can’t achieve our ambitious goals for safety and scale without perfecting our designs and pushing what is possible. We need you to help us gather data, measure our system, analyze performance, drive the next generation of algorithmic designs, and prioritize the development that produces the highest impact. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Develop and evaluate motion planning algorithms for autonomous aircraft, exploring approaches such as search, sampling, and optimization
- Build simulation and analysis tools to compare planner behavior and investigate challenging scenarios
- Use simulation and flight data to identify long-tail issues, validate safety metrics, and guide improvements
- Transition experimental solutions to scalable, real-world applications
- Collaborate closely with team members, brainstorming and deriving creative solutions from first principles
- Share findings and insights, fostering knowledge exchange across teams
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.
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