Senior Maps Routing Engineer – Real-Time AI

jobr.pro; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Zipline, located in South San Francisco, is seeking an experienced engineer to design safe and efficient flight paths for our drone delivery aircraft. This role involves building optimization algorithms that compute global routes and collaborating with autonomy and flight operations teams to enhance delivery speed and reliability.

Applicants should have deep experience in production web applications and a strong understanding of low-latency service operation. Starting cash range is between $170,000 and $210,000, with potential equity and bonuses.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and maintaining production web applications.
• 3+ years of experience leading projects and mentoring engineers.
• Experience operating low-latency, high-availability production services.

Responsibilities

• Design safe and efficient flight paths for Zipline aircraft.
• Build optimization algorithms for routing systems.
• Collaborate with autonomy and flight operations teams.

Skills

Production web applications

Low-latency services

Path planning

Graph search

Distributed systems engineering

Tools

Rust

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Zipline, located in South San Francisco, is seeking an experienced engineer to design safe and efficient flight paths for our drone delivery aircraft. This role involves building optimization algorithms that compute global routes and collaborating with autonomy and flight operations teams to enhance delivery speed and reliability.

Applicants should have deep experience in production web applications and a strong understanding of low-latency service operation. Starting cash range is between $170,000 and $210,000, with potential equity and bonuses.