Senior Routing Engineer - Real-Time Path Optimization

Zipline; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a routing engineer to design and implement flight paths that move Zipline aircraft safely through changing airspace. You will optimize global routes, balancing reliability, throughput, and performance while operating in real time and at scale.

You will work at the intersection of autonomy, distributed systems, and real-world operations, collaborating with autonomy and flight operations teams to power the routing network and improve delivery speed and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience in path planning or motion planning.
• Strong background in optimization for real-time systems.
• Backend or distributed systems fundamentals.
• Ability to work across autonomy and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement safe, low-latency flight paths in real time.
• Build optimization algorithms for global routing.
• Maintain high-availability services with strong SLAs.
• Collaborate with autonomy and flight operations teams.
• Power the routing brain of the delivery network at scale.

Skills

Path planning

Graph search

Motion planning

Optimization

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Low-latency engineering

Tools

Rust

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Zipline is seeking a routing engineer to design and implement flight paths that move Zipline aircraft safely through changing airspace. You will optimize global routes, balancing reliability, throughput, and performance while operating in real time and at scale.

You will work at the intersection of autonomy, distributed systems, and real-world operations, collaborating with autonomy and flight operations teams to power the routing network and improve delivery speed and reliability.