Routing Systems Engineer – Real-Time Autonomous Maps

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Discretionary bonuses

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a Senior Routing Engineer to design safe, efficient flight paths for autonomous delivery aircraft. You will develop real-time routing algorithms that balance reliability, throughput, and safety across global airspace, and work closely with autonomy and flight operations teams to power live flights.

Ideal candidates bring experience with low-latency production services, path planning, and distributed systems, along with a strong ownership mindset and the ability to drive

Qualifications

• Experience operating low-latency, high-availability production services.
• Experience with path planning, graph search, or related optimization problems.
• Strong ownership mindset with a track record of driving projects end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Design safe and efficient flight paths through real-time airspace.
• Build optimization algorithms for the global routing of Zipline aircraft.
• Collaborate with autonomy and flight operations teams to power flight operations.
• Maintain high-reliability, low-latency services with strong SLAs and fault tolerance.

Skills

Low-latency systems

Path planning

Graph search

Motion planning

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Ownership mindset

Tools

Rust

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Zipline is seeking a Senior Routing Engineer to design safe, efficient flight paths for autonomous delivery aircraft. You will develop real-time routing algorithms that balance reliability, throughput, and safety across global airspace, and work closely with autonomy and flight operations teams to power live flights.

Ideal candidates bring experience with low-latency production services, path planning, and distributed systems, along with a strong ownership mindset and the ability to drive