About this role
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service on a mission to ensure access to essential goods globally. They are seeking senior and staff perception engineers to join their Droid team, responsible for developing and implementing cloud-side autonomy pipelines that enhance the delivery experience through advanced perception systems.
Responsibilities:
- Own the design and implementation of cloud-side autonomy pipelines that directly support and scale our onboard perception stack
- Leverage satellite imagery, aerial surveys, and structured data to build semantic and geometric world models of customer delivery zones
- Design and ship tools that predict deliverability, generate high-fidelity priors, and reduce the operational friction of onboarding new customers in new environments
- Train and deploy mid- to large-scale models for semantic segmentation, 3D geometry, and learned preference modeling
- Design evaluation and validation infrastructure to ensure models behave reliably in the field
- Work across engineering to integrate your work into fleet-facing autonomy systems
- Lead architectural decisions, drive experimentation, and help the team push the limits of what’s possible with production-grade perception at scale