Senior Routing Engineer, Real-Time Autonomous Flight

Zipline; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking engineers to design safe, efficient flight paths and optimization algorithms for its autonomous logistics network. You will balance reliability, throughput, and flight performance at global scale, accounting for weather, airspace restrictions, and dynamic demand to power live flights every day.

Join a cross‑functional team intersecting autonomy, distributed systems, and real‑world operations, where AI‑accelerated workflows help accelerate engineering velocity while upholding

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.
• Ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams including autonomy and operations.

Tools

Rust

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Zipline is seeking engineers to design safe, efficient flight paths and optimization algorithms for its autonomous logistics network. You will balance reliability, throughput, and flight performance at global scale, accounting for weather, airspace restrictions, and dynamic demand to power live flights every day.

Join a cross‑functional team intersecting autonomy, distributed systems, and real‑world operations, where AI‑accelerated workflows help accelerate engineering velocity while upholding