Routing Engine Engineer - Real-Time Drone Logistics

Telemetry Today LLC; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking an experienced engineer to design safe and efficient flight paths for autonomous delivery aircraft. You will build optimization algorithms to compute global routes executed in real time, balancing reliability, throughput, and performance at scale.

Collaborate with autonomy and flight operations teams to power flight operations and advance AI-assisted engineering practices. The role combines algorithmic problem-solving with production-grade systems in a safety-critical,

Qualifications

• Experience operating low-latency, high-availability production services.
• Hands-on experience with path planning, graph search, motion planning, or related optimization problems.
• Extreme ownership mindset with a track record of driving projects end-to-end.
• Comfort working on ambiguous, high-visibility / high-impact problems.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including autonomy and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design safe and efficient flight paths that guide aircraft through complex airspace in real time.
• Build optimization algorithms to compute global route sets for autonomous flights.
• Collaborate with autonomy and flight operations teams to power flight operations.
• Develop high-reliability, real-time routing services with low latency and strong SLAs.

Skills

Path planning

Graph search

Motion planning

Ownership mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Rust

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Zipline is seeking an experienced engineer to design safe and efficient flight paths for autonomous delivery aircraft. You will build optimization algorithms to compute global routes executed in real time, balancing reliability, throughput, and performance at scale.

Collaborate with autonomy and flight operations teams to power flight operations and advance AI-assisted engineering practices. The role combines algorithmic problem-solving with production-grade systems in a safety-critical,