About the job
About Zipline
Zipline is recognized as the world’s foremost autonomous delivery service, established with the mission to ensure equitable access to vital goods for everyone, anywhere, at any time. We create and manage the globe’s largest autonomous logistics system, facilitating the prompt and reliable delivery of critical supplies. Operating across four continents, we make deliveries every 30 seconds and have successfully completed millions of missions, delivering blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and commercial products. Our diverse clientele includes healthcare providers, governmental bodies, retailers, and renowned global brands that depend on us to save lives, minimize emissions, increase economic opportunities, and offer scalable logistics services.
Our innovation extends beyond drones; we implement integrated logistics infrastructures that enhance supply chains, alleviate congestion, and enable instant delivery, fundamentally transforming the distribution of essential goods worldwide. With over 140 million safely flown autonomous miles, Zipline is revolutionizing access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate on a global scale and seek practical problem solvers who excel in real-world challenges and rapid expansion. Our team is driven by the desire to build systems that make a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives while scaling the logistics landscape of the future.
About You and The Role
As we oversee the world’s largest autonomous logistics network—delivering essential medical and commercial goods globally with exceptional reliability, precision, and scalability—we are expanding into increasingly complex and safety-critical environments. The systems supporting our autonomy stack must be resilient, adaptable, and intricately integrated, particularly where perception and deployment converge.
We are looking for senior and staff perception engineers to join our Droid team, which is responsible for the autonomy powering Zipline’s backyard delivery functionality. This team manages the entire spectrum of offboard and cloud-based perception systems that inform, validate, and enhance our onboard autonomy. Your contributions will range from generating detailed 3D and semantic priors from aerial survey data to understanding customer preferences and terrain characteristics at scale, ultimately defining how we prepare Zipline aircraft for mission-critical deliveries in complex, real-world settings.
This role is not research-oriented; you will be expected to act swiftly, deliver production-ready systems, and creatively employ cutting-edge techniques to solve tangible, high-impact challenges.
