Senior AI Tooling Software Engineer - Data Platform, Autonomy
Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA
About this role
## About Zipline Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We’re on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine, and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system—delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products. ## About You and The Role As an **AI Tooling Software Engineer** on the **Autonomy** team, you’ll build and scale systems that help teams visualize, annotate, debug, and extract signals from vehicles used in real-world deliveries. These tools sit near the top of the data funnel and power the feedback loop that improves model and hardware performance and the customer experience. We’re looking for an experienced software generalist, or someone with exceptional depth in frontend or backend systems. ## What You’ll Do - Build sophisticated, multimodal data triage and visualization interfaces for Zipline’s data pipelines so teams can investigate critical autonomy problems. - Build scalable backend APIs and real-time data pipelines for querying, filtering, and aggregating large datasets. - Design database schemas, indexes, and query strategies that keep search and analysis fast at scale. - Partner with autonomy, service, maintenance, and operations teams to improve workflows and build tools for development, troubleshooting, and fleet health. ## What You’ll Bring - Experience building data-heavy web applications and improving performance with large datasets. - Understanding of database query optimization and complex JSON or nested data structures. - Experience designing backend APIs with frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI. - Working knowledge of cloud databases such as AWS RDS or DocumentDB. ## Nice to Have - Experience with React, WebGL, or Three.js. - Experience with platform engineering, API gateways, service meshes, or developer platforms. - Background in security engineering, application security, site reliability engineering, or incident response. - Experience establishing technical standards or governance in a fast-moving engineering organization. - Experience with internal tools, data systems, or AI-enabled applications. - Experience building systems for real-world operations, logistics, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability services. ## Voluntary Self-Identification For government reporting purposes, candidates are asked to respond to a self-identification survey. Completion is entirely voluntary and will not affect the hiring process. Any information provided is recorded and maintained in a confidential file. Zipline does not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under applicable law.
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